Lamentations 4:10

י (Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women ¹  cooked their own children, who became their food, ²  when my people ³  were destroyed. ⁴ 

De 28:56,57; 2Ki 6:26-29; 2Ki 6:29; Isa 49:15; La 2:20; La 3:48; La 4:3

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.”