Lamentations 4:9-11

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁹ Better are those ^[a](A)slain with the sword
Than those ^[b]slain with hunger;
For they ^[c](B)pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of ^[d]the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
^(C)Boiled their own children;
They became ^(D)food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
¹¹ The Lord has ^(E)accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has ^(F)kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.