Lamentations 4:3

God's Word

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the women of my people are as cruel as wild ostriches.

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:10

That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed ⌞by a blockade⌟.

Lamentations 2:20

“O Lord, look and consider: Have you ever treated anyone like this? Should women eat their own children, the children they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s holy place?

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make the people eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. They will eat each other’s flesh during blockades and hardships that their enemies impose on them when they want to kill them.”

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Romans 1:31

don’t have any sense, don’t keep promises, and don’t show love to their own families or mercy to others.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers may forget, I will not forget you.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in Babylon’s strongholds, and jackals will howl in its luxurious palaces. Its time has almost come. Its days will not be extended.

Isaiah 34:13

Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches.

1 Kings 3:21

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, he was dead! I took a good look at him and realized that he wasn’t my son at all!”