International Standard Version With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children— they become their food— when my beloved people were destroyed.
American Standard Version The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Young's Literal Translation The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
