Lamentations 4:8-10

International Children’s Bible

⁸ But now they are blacker than coal.
    No one even recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin is stretched over their bones.
    It is as dry as wood.

⁹ Those people who were killed by the sword had it better
    than those killed by hunger.
They starved in pain and died
    because there was no food from the field.

¹⁰ With their own hands kind women
    cooked their own children.
The children became food for their parents.
    This happened when my people were destroyed.