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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Christian Standard Bible ®
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.
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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.
Complete Jewish Bible
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
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
1How the gold has become tarnished, 2Zion’s precious children—once worth their weight in pure gold—how they are regarded as clay jars,the work of a potter’s hands! 3Even jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but my dear people have become cruellike ostriches in the wilderness. 4The nursing baby’s tongueclings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.Infants beg for food,but no one gives them any. 5Those who used to eat delicaciesare destitute in the streets;those who were reared in purple garmentshuddle in trash heaps. 6The punishment of my dear peopleis greater than that of Sodom,which was overthrown in an instantwithout a hand laid on it. 7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow,whiter than milk;their bodies were more ruddy than coral,their appearance like lapis lazuli. 8Now they appear darker than soot;they are not recognized in the streets.Their skin has shriveled on their bones;it has become dry like wood. 9Those slain by the sword are better offthan those slain by hunger,who waste away, pierced with painbecause the fields lack produce. 10The hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.
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
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
Genesis 4:10
Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
Genesis 9:5
And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood; I will require it from any animal and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.
And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood; I will require it from any animal and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.
Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.
Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,
Numbers 35:33
“Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
“Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Joshua 7:19
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make a confession to him. I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.”
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make a confession to him. I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.”
2 Kings 9:26
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday’—this is the Lord’s declaration—’so will I repay you on this plot of land’—this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.”
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday’—this is the Lord’s declaration—’so will I repay you on this plot of land’—this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.”
Job 16:18
Earth, do not cover my blood;may my cry for help find no resting place.
Earth, do not cover my blood;may my cry for help find no resting place.
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 × ×©×× ×¨××× ××ת nashim rachmaniyoth, the compassionate, the tender-hearted mothers. From these horrible scenes it is well to pass with as hasty a step as possible.
