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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.

KJV

Sed et lamiæ nudaverunt mammam, lactaverunt catulos suos : filia populi mei crudelis quasi struthio in deserto.

Vulgate

Γίμελ. Καί γε δράκοντες ἐξέδυσαν μαστούς, ἐθήλασαν σκύμνοι αὐτῶν θυγατέρας λαοῦ μου εἰς ἀνίατον, ὡς στρουθίον ἐν ἐρήμῳ.

LXX

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.

ASV

גַּם תנין תַּנִּים֙ חָ֣לְצוּ שַׁ֔ד הֵינִ֖יקוּ גּוּרֵי/הֶ֑ן בַּת עַמִּ֣/י לְ/אַכְזָ֔ר כי ענים כַּ/יְעֵנִ֖ים בַּ/מִּדְבָּֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַכְזָֽר
'kzr
adjective · 4×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
הָ
h
noun · 7×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יוֹנֵ֖ק
yvnq
verb · 32×
ךְ
k
noun · 24×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
נִי
ny
verb · 44×
ענים
'nym
noun · 2×
תנין
tnyn
noun · 3×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 6:26 — And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
  • Deut 28:52 — And 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 la
  • Deut 28:56 — The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, a
  • Ezek 5:10 — Therefore 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 win
  • Ezek 16:5 — None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
  • Jer 19:9 — And 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 th
  • Job 39:13 — Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
  • Job 39:16 — She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
  • Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
  • Lam 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?
  • Lam 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.
  • Lam 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.
  • Lev 26:29 — And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
  • Luke 23:28 — But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
  • Matt 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!