Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Hardened
Her labour
General references
Bible References
Hardened
Lamentations 4:3
ג GimelEven jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches in the wilderness.
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches
As
Deuteronomy 28:56
The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
1 Kings 3:26
The woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she felt great compassion for her son. “My lord, give her the living baby,” she said, “but please don’t have him killed!”
But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”
But the other one said, “He will not be mine or yours. Cut him in two!”
2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
Lamentations 2:20
ר ReshLord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
Romans 1:31
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.
Her labour
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The struggles of fools weary them,
for they don’t know how to go to the city.
for they don’t know how to go to the city.
Habakkuk 2:13 Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
General references
Job 39:22 He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing;
he does not run from the sword.
he does not run from the sword.