9. Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.
10. Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. Caph. The Lord hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Sion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12. Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem.
13. Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.