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The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Verse 10. Pitful. 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. verse 5. Deuteronomy 28:55. At the last siege of Jerusalem, this barbarity was manifested. Calmet. Jos. Bel. vii. 8. Greek 21. See Calmet. 2:20.—Daughter. So cities are styled. Worthington.
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