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

Lamentations 4:10 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયર્મિયાનો વિલાપ ૪:૧૦
દયાળુ સ્ત્રીઓએ પોતાને હાથે પોતાના બાળકોને બાફ્યાં છે, મારા લોકોની દીકરીના નાશને સમયે એ જ તેઓનો ખોરાક હતો.
हिन्दीविलापगीत ४:१०
दयालु स्त्रियों ने अपने ही हाथों से अपने बच्चों को पकाया है; मेरे लोगों के विनाश के समय वे ही उनका आहार बन गए।

In context

8Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.

9Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

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

11The LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

12The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

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