Lamentations 4:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.
  • Luke 23:28-29 : 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Jer 19:9 : 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 during the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall distress them.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
  • Deut 28:52-57 : 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26-29 : 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD does not help you, how shall I help you? from the threshing floor, or from the winepress? 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
  • Job 39:13-16 : 13 Did you give the peacock its splendid wings, or the ostrich its feathers? 14 It leaves its eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust, 15 And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them. 16 She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

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  • Lam 4:4-5
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    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

    5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • Job 39:14-16
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    14It leaves its eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust,

    15And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

    16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 39:30
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    30Its young ones also drink blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Isa 49:15
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    15Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

  • Job 39:3-4
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    3They crouch down, they bring forth their young, they cast out their labor pains.

    4Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

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

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

  • Job 24:9
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    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.

    3And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men.

  • Lam 2:11-12
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    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.

  • Hos 2:3-5
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    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

    4And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

    5For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

    6And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

  • Isa 66:11-12
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    11That you may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

    12For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you nurse, you shall be carried on her sides, and be dandled on her knees.

  • Isa 60:16
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    16You shall also drink the milk of the Gentiles, and shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

  • Isa 34:14-15
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    14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

    15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

  • Isa 43:20
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    20The beast of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

  • Jer 6:23
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    23They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Ezek 23:21
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    21Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.

  • Deut 32:11
    68%

    11As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:

  • Lam 2:19-20
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    19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

    20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 4:31
    67%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Lam 4:2
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    2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!

  • Lam 4:19
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    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 147:9
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    9He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens which cry.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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

  • Mic 1:8
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    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.

  • Isa 30:6
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    6The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

  • Job 38:41
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    41Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?

  • Isa 42:14
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    14I have held my peace a long time; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a woman in labor; I will destroy and devour at once.

  • Jer 12:9
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    9My heritage is to Me like a speckled bird; the birds all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.