Lamentations 4:3
“Euen the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they giue sucke to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruell, like the ostriches in the wildernesse.”
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Lamentations 4:3 Context
1How is the gold become dimme! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuarie are powred out in the top of euery streete. 2The precious sonnes of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the worke of the hands of the potter! 3Euen the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they giue sucke to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruell, like the ostriches in the wildernesse. 4The tongue of the sucking child cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the young children aske bread, and no man breaketh it vnto them. 5They that did feede delicatly, are desolate in the streetes: they that were brought vp in scarlet, embrace dounghilles.
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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.
- King James Version
Even jackals offer the breast, They nurse their young; {But} the daughter of my people has become cruel Like ostriches in the wilderness.
- New American Standard Version (1995)