Lamentations 4:8-10 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

8. Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death;their skin, dry as wood, has shrivelled on their bones.

9. Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later,who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

10. The disaster that came to my people brought horror;loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Lamentations 4