Lamentations 4:10

י (Yod)

4:10 The hands of tenderhearted women ¹ 

cooked their own children,

who became their food, ² 

when my people ³  were destroyed. ⁴ 

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “the hands of compassionate women.”

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “eating.” The infinitive construct (from I בָּרָה, barah) is translated as a noun. Three passages employ the verb (2 Sam 3:35; 12:17; 13:5,6,10) for eating when ill or in mourning.

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “the daughter of my people.”

[4:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”