Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 in other translations
| BSB | The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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| WEB | 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 | The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people. |
| BBE | The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Webster | The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
What does Lamentations 4:10 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 4:1-12
The deplorable state of the nation is contrasted with its ancient prosperity. Verses 1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its outward appearance may be dimmed, but its real value can never be changed. The horrors of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem are…
Lamentations 4:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 4:10
- Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
- Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- 2 Kings 6:26-29
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
- Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
- Lamentations 4:3
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Leviticus 26:29
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
- Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
- Deuteronomy 28:53-57
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, …
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- Lamentations 4:9
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.
- Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:11
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.
Lamentations 4:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron á sus hijos; fuéronles comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les mains de femmes tendres ont cuit leurs enfants, ils ont été leur viande dans la ruine de la fille de mon peuple. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Hände barmherziger Weiber haben ihre Kinder gekocht; sie wurden ihnen zur Speise bei der Zertrümmerung der Tochter meines Volkes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Manus mulierum misericordium coxerunt filios suos; facti sunt cibus earum in contritione filiæ populi mei. |