The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
All Commentaries on Lamentations 4:10 Go To Lamentations 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pitiful. So their nature dictates. (Worthington)
But hunger made them the reverse. Some think they slew their children, to prevent them being exposed to more cruel torments, (Calmet) as the people of Colchis do their sick. (Chardin.)
Sodden: boiled or roasted; coxerunt, ver. 5., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 55. At the last siege of Jerusalem, this barbarity was manifested. (Calmet) (Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 8.; Gr. 21.) See chap ii. 20.
Daughter. So cities are styled. (Worthington)
