Lamentations 4:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ It was better for those who were killed by the sword
    than for those who died of hunger.
Those starving people were sad and hurt.
    They died because they got no food from the field.
¹⁰ Then even nice women
    cooked their own children.
The children were food for their mothers.
    This happened when my people were destroyed.
¹¹ The Lord used all of his anger.
    He poured out all his anger.
He made a fire in Zion
    that burned it down to the foundations.