Lamentations 4:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is as cruel as the ostrich in the wilderness.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:21

I rose in the morning to nurse my son, and he was dead! But when I examined him in the morning light, I saw it was not the son I had borne.”

Isaiah 13:22

Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Its time is near at hand and its days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:13

Its castles shall be overgrown with thorns, its fortresses with thistles and briers. It shall become an abode for jackals, a haunt for ostriches.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another’s flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, O Lord, and pay attention: to whom have you been so ruthless? Must women eat their own offspring, the very children they have borne? Are priest and prophet to be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Romans 1:31

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.