Lam 4:10 | MHM | STEP | v. 10 : The famine was so extreme that some mothers cooked and ate their own children. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children . This terrible act had been warned by God as a possible result of judgment (Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53 ; Jeremiah 19:9 ). It shows how desperate and sinful the times had become.

‏ Lamentations 4:10

v. 10: The famine was so extreme that some mothers cooked and ate their own children. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children . This terrible act had been warned by God as a possible result of judgment (Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53 ^a; Jeremiah 19:9 ^b). It shows how desperate and sinful the times had become.