Lamentations 4:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches  in the wilderness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, They give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones, but the daughter of my people has become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness [that desert their young].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Common English Bible

³ Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like desert ostriches.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ GHIMEL. Yet even savages expose their breast and give milk to their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.

Lamentations 4:3 Cross References

1 Kings 3:21

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. That morning, when I looked closely at him, I realised that he was not the son I gave birth to.’

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals in the luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is almost up; her days are almost over.

Isaiah 34:13

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briars. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode  for ostriches.

Isaiah 49:15

‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.”

Lamentations 2:20

Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, fathers will eat their sons  within Jerusalem,  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgements against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Romans 1:31

senseless, untrustworthy, unloving,  , and unmerciful.