8 Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
9 Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.
10 The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out his fierce anger; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe, and all the inhabitants of the world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.
14 They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.