Lamentations 4:10
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 4:10 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 4:10 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter o..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 4:10 — KJV
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
— Lamentations 4:10 (KJV)
Lamentations 4:10 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 4:10
“But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. meat: Heb. morsel”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 4:10: own, children, meat
“Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. wept...: Heb. wept a great weeping”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 4:10: women, own, children
“Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. swoon: or, faint”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 4:10: children, destruction, daughter
“Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 4:10: own, destruction, daughter
“For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. punishment of the iniquity: or, iniquity”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 4:10: hands, own, daughter
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