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!”
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, They give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in the wilderness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones, but the daughter of my people has become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness [that desert their young]. American Standard Version (1901) Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. Common English Bible Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like desert ostriches. Catholic Public Domain Version GHIMEL. Yet even savages expose their breast and give milk to their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ghimel. Even the sea-monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. |
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!”
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.
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
“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.
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.
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?
The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.
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.
You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.