Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. sea monsters. Lamentations 2:20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? Lamentations 4:10 Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Leviticus 26:29 So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters. Deuteronomy 28:52-57 And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee: . . . 2 Kings 6:26-29 And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king. . . . Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Jeremiah 19:9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. Luke 23:28,29 But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children. . . . like Job 39:13-16 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk. . . . Romans 1:31 Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Context The Distress of Zion…2Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands? 3Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.4Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them.… Cross References Job 39:14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust. Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. Isaiah 13:22 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure. Isaiah 34:13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches. Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. Jump to Previous Beasts Breast Breasts Cruel Daughter Dragons Draw Drawn Full Heartless Jackals Monsters Nurse Offer Ones Ostriches Sea Sea-Monsters Suck Suckle Waste Wilderness YoungJump to Next Beasts Breast Breasts Cruel Daughter Dragons Draw Drawn Full Heartless Jackals Monsters Nurse Offer Ones Ostriches Sea Sea-Monsters Suck Suckle Waste Wilderness YoungLinks Lamentations 4:3 NIVLamentations 4:3 NLT Lamentations 4:3 ESV Lamentations 4:3 NASB Lamentations 4:3 Bible Apps Lamentations 4:3 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 4:3 Chinese Bible Lamentations 4:3 French Bible Lamentations 4:3 German Bible Alphabetical: become breast breasts but cruel daughter desert Even has have heartless in jackals like my nurse of offer ostriches people the their They to wilderness young OT Prophets: Lamentations 4:3 Even the jackals draw out the breast (Lam. La Lm) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |
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