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56-57 (A) A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.

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57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(A) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

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10 (A) Life in the city is so bad
that loving mothers have boiled
    and eaten their own children.

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10 With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.

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