Graphic Bible · Scene 10 of 22

Poetic visual interpretation: Cold empty cooking pot in a devastated household, restrained indirect acknowledgment of the verse's atrocity, absolutely no children, food, remains, gore or action.
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Lamentations 4:10

Compassion Overwhelmed by Famine

Splendor Lost and Guilt Exposed · Lamentations 4

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 4:10. Cold empty cooking pot in a devastated household, restrained indirect acknowledgment of the verse's atrocity, absolutely no children, food, remains, gore or action. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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

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