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 Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

'And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;

And it cometh to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on the wall, and a woman hath cried unto him, saying, 'Save, my lord, O king.'

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

Like

The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

General references

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;