Lamentations 4:3

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Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

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  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.
  • Luke 23:28-29 : 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
  • Deut 28:52-57 : 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you. 53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive. 55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26-29 : 26 As the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord the king!" 27 He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?" 28 Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."
  • Job 39:13-16 : 13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork? 14 She leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the dust. 15 She forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them. 16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no fear.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 4:4-5
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    80%

    4The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

    5Those who once feasted on delicacies now lie desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in fine crimson embrace ash heaps.

  • Job 39:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14She leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the dust.

    15She forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them.

    16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no fear.

  • Lam 4:10
    73%

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 39:30
    73%

    30Its young ones drink blood, and where the slain are, there it is.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    71%

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

    57She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.

  • Isa 49:15
    71%

    15Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

  • Job 39:3-4
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    3They crouch down, give birth to their young, and deliver their offspring.

    4Their young grow strong, thrive in the open field, and leave, never returning to them.

  • Isa 11:7-8
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    7The cow and the bear will graze; their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

    8The nursing child will play near the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

  • Job 24:9
    70%

    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2Say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and raised her cubs.'

    3She brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey and devoured men.

  • Lam 2:11-12
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    70%

    11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They cry out to their mothers, 'Where is the bread and the wine?' as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, and as they breathe their last in their mothers’ arms.

  • Hos 2:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'

    4Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

    5Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

  • Hos 9:14
    69%

    14Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5Even the doe in the field abandons her newborn because there is no grass.

    6Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights, panting like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.

  • Isa 66:11-12
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    11For you will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing glory.

    12For this is what the Lord says: 'I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her hip, and you will be bounced on her knees.'

  • Isa 60:16
    68%

    16You will suck the milk of nations; you will nurse at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

  • Isa 34:14-15
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    14Wild beasts will meet with hyenas, and satyrs will call to one another. There, the night creature will settle and find her place of rest.

    15There, the arrow snake will make her nest, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for her young in her shadow. Indeed, there the kites will gather, each one with its mate.

  • Isa 43:20
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    20The animals of the field will honor Me— jackals and ostriches—because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people,

  • Jer 6:23
    68%

    23They grasp bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, arrayed as men for battle against you, Daughter Zion.'

  • Hos 4:3
    68%

    3Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish, along with the beasts of the field, the birds of the skies, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

  • Ezek 23:21
    68%

    21So you revisited the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts and caressed your young bosom.

  • Deut 32:11
    68%

    11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings, took him, and carried him on His pinions.

  • Lam 2:19-20
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    19Arise, cry out in the night, at the start of the night watches; pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner.

    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 4:31
    67%

    31I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'

  • Lam 4:2
    67%

    2The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hands!

  • Lam 4:19
    67%

    19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 147:9
    67%

    9He provides food for the animals and for the young ravens when they cry.

  • Hos 9:12
    67%

    12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

  • Prov 30:14
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    14There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Isa 30:6
    66%

    6An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lions, lionesses, adders, and flying serpents, they carry their wealth on donkeys’ backs and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people who will not help them.

  • Job 38:41
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    41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about without food?

  • Isa 42:14
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    14For a long time, I have kept silent; I have held my peace and restrained myself. But now, like a woman in labor, I will cry out; I will gasp and pant together.

  • Jer 12:9
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    9Is my inheritance to me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey surrounding her? Come, gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.