When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, he was dead! But when I looked at him in the morning, I realized that it not my son whom I bore.”
Lamentations 4:3 - Y'all Version Bible Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 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 was dead! But when I looked at him in the morning, I realized that it not my son whom I bore.”
Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you!
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
“Look, YHWH, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
Y’all will eat the flesh of y’all’s sons; y’all will eat the flesh of y’all’s daughters.