9. They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
10. The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12. The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13. It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
14. They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
15. Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.
16. The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.