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Lamentations 4:3 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for Lamentations 4:3 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Lamentations chapter 4 verse 3 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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. sea: or, sea calves”
Lamentations 4:3 (KJV)
Commentary on Lamentations 4:3
Unnatural cruelty: "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" (gam-taninim chaltsו shenuk gureichem bat-ami le-achzar ka-ye'enim ba-midbar). "Sea monsters" (taninim, תַּנִּינִים) likely refers to jackals or other wild animals. Even these creatures nurse their young naturally. But Jerusalem's mothers (bat-ami, "daughter of my people") became "cruel" (achzar, אַכְזָר) like "ostriches" (ye'enim, יְעֵנִים). Job 39:13-17 describes ostriches as neglecting eggs and young, 'hardened ag...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Lamentations 4:3
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“turning to them”
“and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.”
“Yahweh”
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.”
“there cried a woman to him”
“until your high and fortified walls come down”
“in the siege and in the distress”
“that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes”