Pitiful - i. e. tender-hearted, compassionate. meat is used for food Psalms 69:21. What is here stated actually occurred during the siege of Jerusalem by Titus.
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Lamentations 4:10
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.