They go unrecognized in the streets;
aTheir skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.
Than those who die of hunger;
For these apine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the bfield.
Have1 cooked their bown children;
They became cfood for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
aHe has poured out His fierce anger.
bHe kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.
And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed
That the adversary and the enemy
Could aenter the gates of Jerusalem—
And the iniquities of her priests,
bWho shed in her midst
The blood of the just.
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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.
New English Translation
The hands of tenderhearted women1 cooked their own children, who became their food,2 when my people3 were destroyed.4 כ (Kaf)
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