Lamentations 4:3

Translations

Modern

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Even the jackals draw out the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people is cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Latin

Sed et lamiæ nudaverunt mammam, lactaverunt catulos suos: filia populi mei crudelis quasi struthio in deserto.

Original

Hebrew

English

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Notes

Lamentations 4:3

like an ostrich: See also Job 39:13–16.

Lamentations 4:1–22

Although God’s people still experience his judgment, they will soon experience restoration.

Related verses

Luke 23:28–29
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Job 39:13–16
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
2 Kings 6:26–29
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
Deuteronomy 28:52–57
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Romans 1:31
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Glossary

Acrostic Desert Jackal Lamentations, Book of Ostrich Poetry, Biblical Sea Monster

Topics

Breastfeeding Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Milk: Different Kinds Mentioned of Sea-Monsters Ostriches: General Scriptures Concerning The Ostrich of the Unnatural Cruelty of the Jews in Their Calamities

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