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Lamentations 4:8-10
The Message
Lamentations 4:8-10
The Message
8 But now they are smeared with soot,
unrecognizable in the street,
Their bones sticking out,
their skin dried out like old leather.
9 Better to have been killed in battle
than killed by starvation.
Better to have died of battle wounds
than to slowly starve to death.
10 Nice and kindly women
boiled their own children for supper.
This was the only food in town
when my dear people were broken.
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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