With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.

慈心的妇人，当我众民被毁灭的时候，亲手煮自己的儿女作为食物。

当我百姓遭毁灭的时候，慈心的妇人亲手烹煮自己的儿女为食物。

当我百姓遭毁灭的时候，慈心的妇人亲手烹煮自己的儿女为食物。

我的百姓遭毁灭时，慈母亲手煮自己的儿女充饥。

慈心的妇人亲手烹煮自己所生的孩子；在我众民（“我众民”原文作“我子民的女子”）遭毁灭的时候，孩子竟成了母亲的食物。

慈心的婦人，當我眾民被毀滅的時候，親手煮自己的兒女作為食物。

當我百姓遭毀滅的時候，慈心的婦人親手烹煮自己的兒女為食物。

當我百姓遭毀滅的時候，慈心的婦人親手烹煮自己的兒女為食物。

我的百姓遭毀滅時，慈母親手煮自己的兒女充饑。

慈心的婦人親手烹煮自己所生的孩子；在我眾民（“我眾民”原文作“我子民的女子”）遭毀滅的時候，孩子竟成了母親的食物。

慈心的婦人，親手煮自己生的孩子；當我眾民遭破毁時，親生孩子做了自己的食品。

慈婦手烹其子女兮、我民女遭滅時、以此為糧兮、

維彼婦女、素懷矜恤、今民淪喪、烹子而食兮。

我民敗亡之時、慈婦烹子以為食、

With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

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

Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

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

The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.כ( Kaf)

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jerusalem says,“ Lord, look at me. Think about my condition. Have you ever treated anyone else like this? Should women have to eat their babies? Should they eat the children they’ve taken care of? Should priests and prophets be killed in your own temple?

One day the king of Israel was walking on top of the city wall. A woman cried out to him,“ You are my king and master. Please help me!”The king replied,“ If the Lord doesn’t help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”He continued,“ What’s wrong?” She answered,“ A woman said to me,‘ Give up your son. Then we can eat him today. Tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’So we cooked my son. Then we ate him. The next day I said to her,‘ Give up your son. Then we can eat him.’ But she had hidden him.”

I will make the people of this city eat their sons and daughters. And they will eat one another. They will do this because things will be so bad during the attack. The enemies who want to take their lives will bring all this trouble on them.” ’

The Lord answers,“ Can a mother forget the baby who is nursing at her breast? Can she stop having tender love for the child who was born to her? She might forget her child. But I will not forget you.

Even wild dogs nurse their young pups. But my people are as mean as ostriches in the desert.

Your enemies will surround you and attack you. They will make you suffer greatly. So you will eat your own children. You will eat the dead bodies of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.There may be a gentle and caring man among you. But he will treat his own brother badly. He’ll be just as mean to the wife he loves and to any of his children who are still alive.He won’t give to a single one of them any part of the dead bodies of his children that he’s eating. It will be all he has left to eat. That’s how much your enemies will make you suffer when they surround all your cities and attack them.There may be a gentle and caring woman among you. She wouldn’t even touch the ground with her feet without first putting her sandals on. But she will not share anything with the husband she loves. She won’t share with her own children either.She will eat what comes out of her body after she has a baby. Then she’ll even eat her baby. She won’t share it with anyone in her family. In her great hunger she’ll plan to eat it in secret. There won’t be anything else for her to eat because the city she lives in will be surrounded. That’s an example of how much your enemies will make you suffer when they are attacking your cities.

So parents will eat their own children inside the city. And children will eat their parents. I will punish you. And I will scatter to the winds anyone who is left alive.

You will eat the dead bodies of your sons. You will also eat the dead bodies of your daughters.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes. That’s because my people are destroyed.