Lamentations 4:9-11

New American Standard Bible

⁹ Better off are those ^(A)killed by the sword
Than those killed by hunger;
For they ^[a](B)waste away, ^[b]stricken
By the lack of the produce of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
^(C)Boiled their own children;
They became ^(D)food for them
Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
¹¹ The Lord has ^(E)expended His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has ^(F)kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has consumed its foundations.