Lamentations 4:3

Tree of Life Version

Even jackals offer their breast to nurse their young. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter the remainder of you to all the winds.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, Adonai, and consider with whom You have dealt so severely! Should women eat their offspring, their healthy newborn infants? Should kohen and prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord?

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone will eat his companion’s flesh during the siege and distress, which their enemies and those who seek their life will inflict on them.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Romans 1:31

They are foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in their citadels and jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come— her days will not drag on long.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

1 Kings 3:21

When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, he had just died! But when I looked at him closely in the morning, I realized that he was not the son I had borne!”