Lamentations 4:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later,
    who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

^10 (A)The disaster that came to my people brought horror;
    loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

¹¹ The Lord turned loose the full force of his fury;
    he lit a fire in Zion that burned it to the ground.