Lamentaciones 4

Des femmes compatissantes ont de leurs mains Fait cuire leurs enfants ;Ils leur ont servi d'aliment Dans le désastre de la fille de mon peuple.

Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron á sus hijos; fuéronles comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.

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