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Complete Jewish Bible
Lamentations 4:10
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
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Christian Standard Bible®
The hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.
The hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.
Hebrew Names Version
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
King James Version
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
English Standard Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New American Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New Century Version
With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.
With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.
Amplified Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
World English Bible
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Legacy Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate womenBoiled their own children;They became food for themBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate womenBoiled their own children;They became food for themBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Berean Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Contemporary English Version
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.
Darby Translation
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.
Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Good News Translation
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Lexham English Bible
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Literal Translation
The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wome (which of nature are pitefull) haue sodden their owne children with their hondes: that they might be their meate, in ye miserable destruccion of the doughter of my people.
The wome (which of nature are pitefull) haue sodden their owne children with their hondes: that they might be their meate, in ye miserable destruccion of the doughter of my people.
American Standard Version
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Bible in Basic English
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
King James Version (1611)
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The women (whiche of nature are pitifull) haue sodden their owne chyldren with their hands, that they might be their meate in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.
The women (whiche of nature are pitifull) haue sodden their owne chyldren with their hands, that they might be their meate in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
English Revised Version
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Joth. The hondis of merciful wymmen sethiden her children; thei weren maad the metis of tho wymmen in the sorewe of the douyter of my puple.
Joth. The hondis of merciful wymmen sethiden her children; thei weren maad the metis of tho wymmen in the sorewe of the douyter of my puple.
Update Bible Version
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Webster's Bible Translation
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New English Translation
י (Yod)
The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.New King James Version
The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New Living Translation
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.
New Life Bible
Women who had shown loving-kindness have boiled their own children for food, because my people are destroyed.
Women who had shown loving-kindness have boiled their own children for food, because my people are destroyed.
New Revised Standard
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children, - they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children, - they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Revised Standard Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Young's Literal Translation
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
THE MESSAGE
Nice and kindly women boiled their own children for supper. This was the only food in town when my dear people were broken.
Nice and kindly women boiled their own children for supper. This was the only food in town when my dear people were broken.
Contextual Overview
1 How the gold has lost its luster! How the fine gold has changed! How the stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at every streetcorner! 2 The precious sons of Tziyon, as precious as fine gold — to think they are now worth no more than clay jars made by a potter! 3 Even jackals bare their breasts in order to nurse their young, but the daughters of my people have become as cruel as ostriches in the desert. 4 The tongue of the baby at the breast sticks to the roof of its mouth from thirst; young children are begging for bread, but no one is giving them any. 5 People who once ate only the best lie dying in the streets; those who were raised wearing purple are clawing at piles of garbage. 6 For the offense of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of S'dom, which was overthrown in an instant, without a hand to help her. 7 Her princes were purer than snow; they were whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than pink pearls, as beautiful as sapphires. 8 Now their faces are blacker than coal; in the streets they go unrecognized. Their skin has shriveled over their bones and become as dry as a stick. 9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those who are dying from hunger; since these waste away as if pierced through, for lack of food from the fields. 10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hands: Lamentations 4:3, Lamentations 2:20, 2 Kings 6:26-29
pitiful: Isaiah 49:15
in: Lamentations 3:48, Deuteronomy 28:56, Deuteronomy 28:57, 2 Kings 6:29
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:29 - General Deuteronomy 28:53 - the fruit 2 Kings 6:28 - Give thy son Psalms 59:15 - for meat Isaiah 8:21 - hardly bestead Isaiah 9:20 - And he Isaiah 22:2 - thy slain Isaiah 36:12 - that they may Jeremiah 4:11 - daughter Jeremiah 6:26 - daughter Jeremiah 15:9 - She that hath Jeremiah 19:9 - eat the Jeremiah 37:21 - until Lamentations 1:20 - abroad Lamentations 2:11 - for Ezekiel 4:16 - eat Ezekiel 5:10 - the fathers Ezekiel 14:13 - break Ezekiel 16:5 - eye Matthew 24:19 - General Mark 13:17 - General Luke 21:23 - woe
Cross-References
Genesis 3:13
Adonai , God, said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me, so I ate."
Adonai , God, said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me, so I ate."
Genesis 4:9
Adonai said to Kayin, "Where is Hevel your brother?" And he replied, "I don't know; am I my brother's guardian?"
Adonai said to Kayin, "Where is Hevel your brother?" And he replied, "I don't know; am I my brother's guardian?"
Genesis 4:10
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
Genesis 9:5
I will certainly demand an accounting for the blood of your lives: I will demand it from every animal and from every human being. I will demand from every human being an accounting for the life of his fellow human being.
I will certainly demand an accounting for the blood of your lives: I will demand it from every animal and from every human being. I will demand from every human being an accounting for the life of his fellow human being.
Genesis 18:20
Adonai said, "The outcry against S'dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious
Adonai said, "The outcry against S'dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious
Exodus 3:7
Adonai said, "I have seen how my people are being oppressed in Egypt and heard their cry for release from their slavemasters, because I know their pain.
Adonai said, "I have seen how my people are being oppressed in Egypt and heard their cry for release from their slavemasters, because I know their pain.
Numbers 35:33
In this way you will not defile the land in which you are living. For blood defiles the land, and in this land no atonement can be made for the blood shed in it except the blood of him who shed it.
In this way you will not defile the land in which you are living. For blood defiles the land, and in this land no atonement can be made for the blood shed in it except the blood of him who shed it.
Joshua 7:19
Y'hoshua said to ‘Akhan, "My son, swear to Adonai , the God of Isra'el, that you will tell the truth and confess to him. Tell me, now, what did you do? Don't hide anything from me."
Y'hoshua said to ‘Akhan, "My son, swear to Adonai , the God of Isra'el, that you will tell the truth and confess to him. Tell me, now, what did you do? Don't hide anything from me."
2 Kings 9:26
‘ Adonai says: "Yesterday I saw the blood of Navot and the blood of his sons." Adonai also says: "I will pay you back in this field."' Therefore, pick him up; and throw him into the field, in keeping with what Adonai said."
‘ Adonai says: "Yesterday I saw the blood of Navot and the blood of his sons." Adonai also says: "I will pay you back in this field."' Therefore, pick him up; and throw him into the field, in keeping with what Adonai said."
Job 16:18
"Earth, don't cover my blood; don't let my cry rest [without being answered].
"Earth, don't cover my blood; don't let my cry rest [without being answered].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children,.... Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their sex, pitiful and compassionate; merciful to the poor, as the Targum; and especially tenderhearted to their own offspring; yet, by reason of the soreness of the famine, became so cruel and hardhearted, as to take their own children, and slay them with their own hands, cut them to pieces, put them into a pot of water, and make a fire and boil them, and then eat them, as follows:
they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people: at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. This strange and unnatural action was foretold by Moses, Deuteronomy 28:56; and though we have no particular instance of it on record, as done at the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, yet no doubt there was, as may be concluded from the words: and at the siege of it by the Romans, when many things here spoken of had a fuller accomplishment, we have a remarkable instance of it, which Josephus a relates; an illustrious woman, named Mary, pressed with the famine, slew her own son, a sucking child, boiled him, and ate part of him, and laid up the rest; which was found by the seditious party that broke into her house, which struck them with the utmost horror; Deuteronomy 28:56- :.
a De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Pitiful - i. e. tender-hearted, compassionate. meat is used for food Psalms 69:21. What is here stated actually occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by Titus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children — Lamentations 2:20. But here there is a reference to mothers eating their own children; and this was done, not by mothers cruel and brutal, but by נשים רחמניות nashim rachmaniyoth, the compassionate, the tender-hearted mothers. From these horrible scenes it is well to pass with as hasty a step as possible.
