8 Their form has become darker than soot! They are not recognized in the street. Their skin has shriveled on their bones, withered like a tree.
9 Better are those slain by the sword than those struck down by famine— they waste away, racked with pain, for lack of fruits of the field.
10 The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.
11 Adonai has vented His fury. He has poured out His burning anger. Yes, He kindled a fire in Zion that devoured her foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did the inhabitations of the world, that enemy and foe would enter the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her kohanim, who shed in her midst the blood of the tzadikim .
14 They wander in the streets, like blind men. They are so defiled with blood, no one can touch their garments.