Lamentations 4:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ More blessed were those who died by the sword
    than those who died of hunger,
with their limbs wasting away,
    deprived of the produce of the field.
¹⁰ With their own hands, compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
those offspring became their food
    when my people were on the verge of extinction,
¹¹ The Lord let his blazing anger pour forth
    and gave full vent to his wrath
as he kindled a fire in Zion
    that devoured her foundations.