Lamentations 4:3

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Summary

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.

The daughter

Like

Job 39:13

Romans 1:31

General references

Matthew 24:19

Mark 13:17

Bible References

The daughter

See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt thus?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy?
Should priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

The hands of compassionate women

Boiled their own children;

They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Like

“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously
With the pinion and plumage of love,

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

General references

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!