Thomas Aquinas Commentary Lamentations 4:10

"The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people." — Lamentations 4:10 (ASV)

Here he presents the immense hunger of mothers, who, in their extreme hunger, ate their own children: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children? (Lamentations 2:20).