Lamentations 4:9-11

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁹ Those cut down by the sword are better off than those cut down by hunger,
    those who waste away, pierced with pain, with no crops to eat from the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women boiled their children.
    Their children became their food when the daughter of my people was broken.
¹¹ The Lord carried out his wrath. He poured out his burning anger.
    He kindled a fire in Zion, and it consumed her foundations.