The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC