Lamentations 4:10 meaning and explanation
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, surveying Jerusalem after its destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. Famine inside the besieged city was so severe that even compassionate women, the last people one would expect to do such a thing, cooked their own children for food.
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