Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness. Cross References Job 39:14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. Job 39:16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain. Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon's time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. Isaiah 49:15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 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.' Chapter Outline 1. Zion bewails her pitiful estate13. She confesses her sins 21. Edom is threatened and Zion comforted. 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 Young |
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge sea monsters. 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 Links Lamentations 4:3 NIVLamentations 4:3 NLT Lamentations 4:3 ESV Lamentations 4:3 NASB Lamentations 4:3 KJV Lamentations 4:3 Bible Apps Lamentations 4:3 Parallel Lamentations 4:3 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 4:3 Chinese Bible Lamentations 4:3 French Bible Lamentations 4:3 German Bible Lamentations 4:3 Commentaries Bible Hub |