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Lamentations 4:3

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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.

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Lamentations 4:3 in other translations

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.

Lamentations 4:3 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 4:3 in context

  1. 1How the gold has become dim!
    The most pure gold has 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 they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,
    the work of the hands of the potter!
  3. 3Even 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.
  4. 4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
    The young children ask bread,
    and no one breaks it for them.
  5. 5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
    Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.