{Gimel} The Dragons give their young ones suck with bare breasts: but the daughter of my people is cruel, and dwelleth in the wilderness like the Ostriches.

{ Res} Behold, O LORD, and consider: why hast thou gathered me up so clean? Shall the women then eat their own fruit; even children of a span long? Shall the priests and prophets be slain thus in the Sanctuary of the LORD?

And as the king of Israel walked upon the walls, there cried a woman to him, saying, "Help, my lord king."

Pitiful

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

In

Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.

Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you that she dare not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for softness and tenderness, shall be grieved to look on the husband that lieth in her bosom and on her son and on her daughter -

And so we dressed my son and did eat him. And I said to her another day, 'Bring thy son that we may eat him.' But she hath hid her son."

General references

Woe shall be in those days to them that are with child, and to them that give suck.

But woe is then to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days.