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

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Job 39:13

Romans 1:31

General references

Matthew 24:19

Mark 13:17

Bible References

The daughter

Resh Look, O LORD, and consider unto whom thou hast shaken thus. Shall the women eat their fruit, the little ones that they are bringing up? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Jod The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which thou dost trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God has given thee.

And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried unto him, saying, Save me, my lord, O king.

Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even though they may forget, I will not forget thee.

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, with which their enemies and those that seek their souls shall straiten them.

For the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all the winds.

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.

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And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!