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Lamentations 4:3

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.

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Lamentations 4:3 in other translations

Even the jackals offer their breast.
They nurse their young ones.
But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:3 · World English Bible

Lamentations 4:3 in context

  1. 1How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
  2. 2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
  3. 3Even 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.
  4. 4The 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. 5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.