KJV King James Version
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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Lamentations 4:3
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
WEB World English Bible
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 4
1 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 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.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
גַּם־H1571 · gamalsoתַּנִּים֙H8577 · tanjackalחָ֣לְצוּH2502 · cha.latsto rescueשַׁ֔דH7699 · shadbreastהֵינִ֖יקוּH3243 · ya.naqto suckleגּוּרֵיהֶ֑ןH1482 · gurwhelpבַּת־H1323 · batdaughterעַמִּ֣יH5971 · ampeopleלְאַכְזָ֔רH393 · akh.zarcruelכַּיְעֵנִ֖יםH3283 · ya.enostrichבַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ סH4057 · mid.barmouth
Cross-references
Luke 23:28-29But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.Ezekiel 5:10Therefore 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 the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.Lamentations 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Lamentations 2:20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.Leviticus 26:29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.Job 39:13-16[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?2 Kings 6:26-29And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.Deuteronomy 28:52-57And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.Romans 1:31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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