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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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The Paradox of "Pitiful"
Commentators explain that the word "pitiful" is used to heighten the horror, not to praise the women. The point is that these were naturally compassionate, tender-hearted mothers. The famine and judgment were so severe that they drove otherwise loving women to this monstrous, unnatural act, showing the profound depths of the calamity.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Pitiful – that is, tender-hearted, compassionate. Meat is used for food (Psalms 69:21). What is here stated actually occurred du…
19th Century
Anglican
The hands of the pitiful women.—See Note on Lamentations 2:20.
16th Century
Protestant
Here Jeremiah refers to that disgraceful and abominable deed mentioned yesterday; for it was not only a barbarity, but a beastly savageness, when m…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children , &c.] Such as were naturally, and agreeably to their …
What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Ch…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he presents the immense hunger of mothers, who, in their extreme hunger, ate their own children: shall women then eat their own fruit, …
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