4:8 ח (Khet)

Now their appearance ¹  is darker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it is dried up, like tree bark.

4:9 ט (Tet)

Those who died by the sword ²  are better off

than those who die of hunger, ³ 

those who ⁴  waste away, ⁵ 

struck down ⁶  from lack of ⁷  food. ⁸ 

4:10 י (Yod)

The hands of tenderhearted women ⁹ 

cooked their own children,

who became their food, ¹⁰ 

when my people ¹¹  were destroyed. ¹²