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Lamentations 4:10

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial

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KJV ORIGINAL

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Close to the original. Clear modern English.

✦ MADE SIMPLE

Loving mothers were forced to cook their own children to survive — they became food during the complete destruction of my people.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

When everything falls apart, even the most unthinkable becomes reality.

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