Lamentations 4:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

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

¹² The kings of the earth did not believe,
    nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
    the gates of Jerusalem.