Lamentations 4:10-12

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
they became their food
    in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹ The Lord gave full vent to his wrath,
    he poured out his hot anger;
and he kindled a fire in Zion,
    which consumed its foundations.

¹² The kings of the earth did not believe,
    or any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
    the gates of Jerusalem.