Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children - See on Lamentations 2:20 ; (note). But here there is a reference to mothers eating their own children; and this was done, not by mothers cruel and brutal, but by רחמניות נשים nashim rachmaniyoth , the compassionate, the tender-hearted mothers. From these horrible scenes it is well to pass with as hasty a step as possible.