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
1 tn Heb “the hands of compassionate women.”
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.
3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.”
4 tn Heb “in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”