Lamentations 4:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death;
    their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.

⁹ Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later,
    who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

^10 (A)The disaster that came to my people brought horror;
    loving mothers boiled their own children for food.