29 So we cooked my son and ate(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

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29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

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29 So (A)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

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I will make them eat(A) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies(B) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

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And I will cause them to eat the (A)flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’

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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

10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.(A) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.(B)

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10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

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10 Therefore fathers (A)shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will (B)scatter to all the winds.

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