Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Note Or serpents or dragons
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.
Note sea…: or, sea calves
Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Even the jackals 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.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- sea monsters
- or, sea calves. the daughter.
- Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:52–57; 2 Kings 6:26–29; Isaiah 49:15; Jeremiah 19:9; Ezekiel 5:10; Luke 23:28, 29
- like
- Job 39:13–16; Romans 1:31