Lamentations 4:9

Better are those ^apierced through with the sword

Than those pierced through with hunger;

For their life ^bflows away, being stricken

For lack of the produce of ¹the field.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women

^aBoiled their own children;

They became ^bfood for them

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.