Lamentations 4:8-10

8Their form has become darker than soot! They are not recognized in the street. Their skin has shriveled on their bones, withered like a tree.

9Better are those slain by the sword than those struck down by famine— they waste away, racked with pain, for lack of fruits of the field.

10The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.