Lamentations 4:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Happier were the victims of the sword
    than the victims of hunger,
who pined away, stricken
    by want of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
they became their food
    in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹ The Lord gave full vent to his wrath,
    he poured out his hot anger;
and he kindled a fire in Zion,
    which consumed its foundations.