Lamentations Chapter 4 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
read chapter 4 in ASV

BBE Lamentations 4:10

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
read chapter 4 in BBE

DARBY Lamentations 4:10

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
read chapter 4 in DARBY

KJV Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
read chapter 4 in KJV

WBT Lamentations 4:10


read chapter 4 in WBT

WEB Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
read chapter 4 in WEB

YLT Lamentations 4:10

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.
read chapter 4 in YLT

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - The pitiful women. Strange contrast between the compassionate nature of woman (comp. Isaiah 49:15) and the dread horrors of this moral as well as physical catastrophe (comp. note on Lamentations 2:20).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) The hands of the pitiful women.--See Note on Lamentations 2:20.