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.
Cross References
Job 39:14
For 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? Even if she could 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.'


Treasury of Scripture
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 2:20
Behold, 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?



Lamentations 4:10
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
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

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Job 39:13-16
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? …



Romans 1:31
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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