“The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Lamentations 4 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.