Lamentations 4:10 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:10 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:10 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:10 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:10 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:10 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:10 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:10 in Context — Lamentations 4
8 Their 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.
9 They 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.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The 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.
12 The 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.
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What Does Lamentations 4:10 Mean?
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