Other translations
American Standard Version
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Darby Bible Translation
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
God's Word
The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed [by a blockade].
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
International Standard Version
With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children— they become their food— when my beloved people were destroyed.
NET Bible
The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
New American Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New International Version
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
New Living Translation
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.
Webster's Bible Translation
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 World English Bible
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
EasyEnglish Bible
Women who once were very kind have boiled their own children. Their children became their food, when the enemies were destroying the city.
Young‘s Literal Translation
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New Life Version
Women who had shown loving-kindness have boiled their own children for food, because my people are destroyed.
The Voice Bible
Just imagine the injustice: loving mothers are forced to cook their babies’ flesh. Children have become their food! All because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Living Bible
Tenderhearted women have cooked and eaten their own children; thus they survived the siege.
New Catholic Bible
With their own hands, compassionate women have boiled their own children; those offspring became their food when my people were on the verge of extinction,
Legacy Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jubilee Bible 2000
The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Christian Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
Amplified Bible © 1954
The hands of [heretofore] compassionate women have boiled their own children; they were their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
New Century Version
With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.
The Message
Nice and kindly women boiled their own children for supper. This was the only food in town when my dear people were broken.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
The hands of compassionate women boiled their children. Their children became their food when the daughter of my people was broken.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
Good News Translation®
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
Wycliffe Bible
The hands of merciful women seethed their children; they were made the meats of those women in the sorrow of the daughter of my people. (The hands of merciful women boiled their own children; they were made the food for those women in the horror of the wounding of my people.)
Contemporary English Version
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
Common English Bible © 2011
The hands of loving women boiled their own children to become their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Amplified Bible © 2015
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
English Standard Version Anglicised
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.
New American Standard Bible
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 Expanded Bible
With their own hands ·kind [compassionate] women ·cook [boil] their own children. They became food when ·my [L the daughter of my] people were ·destroyed [fractured; broken; Deut. 28:56–57].
Tree of Life Version
The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.
Revised Standard Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New International Reader's Version
With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.
BRG Bible
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Complete Jewish Bible
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
The hands of the pitiful nashim have cooked their own yeladim; they were their meat in the destruction of the Bat Ami.
Names of God Bible
The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed by a blockade.
Modern English Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.
International Children’s Bible
With their own hands kind women cooked their own children. The children became food for their parents. This happened when my people were destroyed.
Lexham English Bible
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New International Version - UK
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.