Lamentations 4:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord, and consider! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have borne? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Romans 1:31

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will cry in its towers and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand; and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

1 Kings 3:21

When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, I saw that he was dead, but when I looked at him closely in the morning, clearly it was not the son I had borne.”