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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
גַּם־gam-alsoH1571 →
תַּנִּים֙ta.ninjackalsH8577 →
חָ֣לְצוּChal.tzuthey draw outH2502 →
שַׁ֔דShada breastH7699 →
הֵינִ֖יקוּhei.Ni.kuthey suckleH3243 →
גּוּרֵיהֶ֑ןgu.rei.Henyoung theirH1482 →
בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
עַמִּ֣י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
לְאַכְזָ֔רle.'akh.Zar[has become] <into> cruelH393 →
כַּיְעֵנִ֖יםka.e.nimlike <the> ostrichesH3283 →
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ סba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057 →

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Job 39:16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.Ezekiel 5:10As 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.’Luke 23:28–29But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Lamentations 2:20Look, 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?Ezekiel 16:5No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.Job 39:13–16The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.2 Kings 6:26–29As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”Deuteronomy 28:52–57They 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.Jeremiah 19:9I 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.’Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.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!Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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