| Lamentations 4:10
| 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.
| Pitiful. So their nature dictates. (Worthington) --- But hunger made them the reverse. Some think they slew their children, to prevent them being exposed to more cruel torments, (Calmet) as the people of Colchis do their sick. (Chardin.) --- Sodden: boiled or roasted; coxerunt, ver. 5., and Deuteronomy 28:55. At the last siege of Jerusalem, this barbarity was manifested. (Calmet) (Josephus, Jewish Wars 7:8.; Gr. 21.) See chap 2:20. --- Daughter. So cities are styled. (Worthington)
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