On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.(A)

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And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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10 (A)The hands of (B)compassionate women
    (C)have boiled their own children;
(D)they became their food
    during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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10 With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.

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10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:10 boiled