Infant

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.