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 (11)

  • Ezekiel 5:10 (5)

    As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against yo

  • Luke 23:28–29 (5)

    But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your chi

  • Lamentations 2:20 (4)

    Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they hav

  • Lamentations 4:10 (4)

    The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughte

  • Deuteronomy 28:52–57 (3)

    They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen

  • Job 39:13–16 (3)

    The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

  • 2 Kings 6:26–29 (3)

    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

  • Jeremiah 19:9 (3)

    I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distr

  • Leviticus 26:29 (3)

    You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

  • Isaiah 49:15 (2)

    “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not

  • Romans 1:31 (2)

    They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.