Lamentations 4:8-10

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⁸ but now their faces are as black as soot. No one can recognize them. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is dry and hard and withered. ⁹ Those killed by the sword are far better off than those who die of slow starvation. ¹⁰ Tenderhearted women have cooked and eaten their own children; thus they survived the siege.