Lamentations 4:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:21

And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

Isaiah 13:22

And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

Isaiah 49:15

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

Lamentations 2:20

Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

Leviticus 26:29

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

Romans 1:31

Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: