Lamentations 4:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ Those killed by the sword
    are better off than those who die of hunger,
for they pine away,
    stricken for want of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
they became their food in the destruction
    of the daughter of my people.

¹¹ The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
    He has poured out His fierce anger.
He kindled a fire in Zion,
    and it has devoured its foundations.