Lamentations 4:8-10

Tree of Life Version

⁸ Their form has become darker than soot!
    They are not recognized in the street.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones,
    withered like a tree.
⁹ Better are those slain by the sword
    than those struck down by famine—
they waste away, racked with pain,
    for lack of fruits of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    boiled their own children.
They became their food
    when the daughter of my people were destroyed.