Lamentations 4:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ But now their faces are blacker than soot.
    No one even recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin is wrinkled over their bones.
    Their skin is like wood.
⁹ It was better for those who were killed by the sword
    than for those who died of hunger.
Those starving people were sad and hurt.
    They died because they got no food from the field.
¹⁰ Then even nice women
    cooked their own children.
The children were food for their mothers.
    This happened when my people were destroyed.