Lamentations 4:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

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.

Lamentations 4:10

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

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?

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.’