Lamentations 4:10 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:10 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:10 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:10 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:10 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:10 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:10 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:10 in Context — Lamentations 4
8 Oscura más que la negrura es la forma de ellos; no los conocen por las calles: su piel está pegada á sus huesos, seca como un palo.
9 Más dichosos fueron los muertos á cuchillo que los muertos del hambre; porque éstos murieron poco á poco por falta de los frutos de la tierra.
10 Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron á sus hijos; fuéronles comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
11 Cumplió Jehová su enojo, derramó el ardor de su ira; y encendió fuego en Sión, que consumió sus fundamentos.
12 Nunca los reyes de la tierra, ni todos los que habitan en el mundo, creyeron que el enemigo y el adversario entrara por las puertas de Jerusalem.
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What Does Lamentations 4:10 Mean?
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