Lamentations 4:3

Good News Translation

Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:21

The next morning, when I woke up and was going to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. I looked at it more closely and saw that it was not my child.”

Isaiah 13:22

The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over.”

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.

Isaiah 49:15

So the Lord answers, “Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children.”

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!

Lamentations 4:10

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Leviticus 26:29

Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.

Romans 1:31

they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.