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

{ 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?

{Yod} The women, which of nature are pitiful, have sodden their own children with their hands that they might be their meat, in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.

so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

And he shall keep thee in all thy cities, until thy high and strong walls be come down wherein thou trustedest, through all thy land. And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

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

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.

I will feed them also with the flesh of their sons and their daughters. Yea every one shall eat up another in the besieging and straightness, wherewith their enemies, that seek their lives, shall keep them in.'

For in thee the fathers shall be fain to eat their own sons, and the sons their own fathers. Such a court will I keep in thee, and the whole remnant will I scatter into all the winds.

But Jesus turned back unto them, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me: but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

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"Gavest thou the fair wings unto the peacocks, or wings and feathers unto the Ostrich?

without understanding, covenant-breakers, unloving, truce-breakers, and merciless.

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.