4:10a The hands of compassionate women

Women who usually/previously were very kind (Translation for Translators)
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Then even nice women (English Easy-to-Read Version)

4:10b have cooked their own children,

have killed and cooked their own children. (Translation for Translators)
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boiled their own children for supper. (MSG)

4:10c who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

They ate them when there was no other food, when Jerusalem was surrounded by enemy soldiers. (Translation for Translators)
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The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed. (English Easy-to-Read Version)

4:10a-c (combined)

Life in the city is so hard that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children. (Contemporary English Version)

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