John Chrysostom

What were Israel's sufferings in Palestine, famines, pestilences, wars, captivities, under the Babylonians, and under the Assyrians, and their miseries from the Macedonians, and those under Hadrian and Vespasian? I have something that I wish, beloved, to relate to thee; nay, do not run away! Or rather I will tell thee another thing before it. …

Homilies On 1 Thessalonians 8 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Here is considered the immense hunger of mothers, who eat their own children, through an excessive hunger. As said above in Chapter 2:20: "Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care?"

Commentary on Lamentations ↗

Bonaventure

See to it that each one of you has that ointment, so that he may be devoutly disposed toward God and may repent and guard himself from sin. Some have compassion on their flesh, not on their soul. Whence in Lamentations: "The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children." Such a one is not like the Virgin nor like Christ. "He boils his children" who has no compassion on his own soul, but exposes it to the fire of concupiscence and of infernal torments.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 6 ↗