Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.
Lamentations 4:5
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:6
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.
Lamentations 4:7
Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
Lamentations 4:8
Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
Lamentations 4:9
Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:12
They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, at 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.
Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Lamentations 2:21
“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
Lamentations 2:22
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
Ezekiel 5:16
when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread.
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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 2:20
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Deuteronomy 28:53
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
Deuteronomy 28:55
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57
toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
2 Kings 6:27
He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
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Job 39:13
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
Job 39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
Job 39:15
and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
Job 39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Job 39:17
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Job 39:18
When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Genesis 1:21
God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
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Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Leviticus 11:16
the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Isaiah 13:21
But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
Isaiah 13:22
Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah 43:20
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
Isaiah 34:13
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Isaiah 35:7
The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
Jeremiah 10:22
The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
Jeremiah 49:33
Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.”
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
Hosea 9:14
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
Luke 21:23
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:17
“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Lamentations 3:48
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Genesis 21:7
She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”
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