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Lamentations 4:10

King James Version

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8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.Select Lamentations 4:8

9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.Select Lamentations 4:9

10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Select Lamentations 4:10

11The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.Select Lamentations 4:11

12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.Select Lamentations 4:12

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4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

ASV

4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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