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Family values in Lamentations

  1. God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22

  2. God punishes the Israelites by starving their children to death. 4:4-9

  3. God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. 4:10-11