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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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The daughter
Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 26:29
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, in which thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore 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 will I scatter into all the winds.
Luke 23:28
But Jesus turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
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Job 39:13
Gavest thou the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich!
Romans 1:31
Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
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Matthew 24:19
And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days.