Verse Comparison: Lamentations 4:10
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.
Amplified® Bible
The hands of [heretofore] compassionate women have boiled their own children; they were their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
Contemporary English Version
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.
Darby English Version
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Good News Bible
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
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.
New American Standard 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.
New International Version
With their own hands compassionate women
have 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.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of 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.
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.
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