Lamentations 4:9-13

Better off are those killed by the sword Than those killed by hunger; For they waste away, stricken By the lack of the produce of the field.

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 Lord has expended His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has consumed its foundations.

The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy Would enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Because of the sins of her prophets And the wrongdoings of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous,