Lamentations 4:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ Those killed by swords are better off
    than those who die of hunger.
Those who are hungry waste away to nothing.
    They don’t have any food from the fields.

¹⁰ With their own hands, loving mothers
    have had to cook even their own children.
They ate their children
    when my people were destroyed.

¹¹ The Lord has become very angry.
    He has poured out his burning anger.
He started a fire in Zion.
    It burned its foundations.