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

Look, O Jehovah! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple!

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

They will blockade all your cities until the high, fortified walls you trust come down everywhere in your land. They will blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

The king of Israel walked by on the city wall when a woman cried out: Help me, Your Majesty!

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers forget, 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 cause them.'

Fathers will eat their sons among you and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter your entire remnant to every wind.'

Jesus turned to them and said: Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

General references

You who are pregnant or nursing babies in those days will feel trouble.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!