Lamentations 4:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ But their appearance grew darker than soot; they weren’t recognized in the streets.
Their skin shriveled on their bones; it became dry like wood.

⁹ Things were better for those stabbed by the sword than for those stabbed by famine—
those who bled away, pierced, lacking food from the field.

¹⁰ The hands of loving women boiled their own children
    to become their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.