Lamentations 4:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Now their visage is blacker than soot,
    they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled upon their bones,
    it has become as dry as wood.

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.