Lamentations 4:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Even jackals nurse their young, but my people are like ostriches that abandon their own.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:21

In the morning when I got up to feed my son, I saw that he was dead. But when I looked at him in the light, I knew he wasn't my son.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas and wolves will howl from Babylon's fortresses and beautiful palaces. Its time is almost up!

Isaiah 34:13

Its palaces and fortresses will be covered with thorns; only wolves and ostriches will make their home there.

Isaiah 49:15

The LORD answered, “Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came from her own body? Even if a mother could forget, I will never forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

And while your enemies are trying to break through your city walls to kill you, the food supply will run out. You will become so hungry that you will eat the flesh of your friends and even of your own children.

Lamentations 2:20

Think about it, LORD! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

Leviticus 26:29

In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

Romans 1:31

They are stupid, unreliable, and don't have any love or pity for others.