Revised Webster's Bible
Lamentations 4:3
3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.1
Lamentations 4:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness.
Context of Lamentations 4:3
1How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. 2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4The tongue of the nursing child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it to them. 5They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Read all of Lamentations 4Lamentations 4:3 word by word
גַּם־תַּנִּים֙ חָ֣לְצוּ שַׁ֔ד הֵינִ֖יקוּ גּוּרֵיהֶ֑ן בַּת־עַמִּ֣י לְאַכְזָ֔ר כַּיְעֵנִ֖ים בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ סRead the interlinear
- monstersתַּןtannîyn tannîym · jackalH8577
- outחָלַץchâlats · to rescueH2502
- breastשַׁדshad shôd · breastH7699
- nurseיָנַקyânaq · to suckleH3243
- onesגּוּרgûr gûr · whelpH1482
- daughterבַּתbath · daughterH1323
- peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- cruelאַכְזָר'akzâr · cruelH393
- ostrichesיָעֵןyâ‛ên · ostrichH3283
- wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
Cross-references for Lamentations 4:3
- Lamentations 2:20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 4:10The hands of the tenderhearted women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Leviticus 26:29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
- Deuteronomy 28:52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, in which thou didst trust, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
- 2 Kings 6:26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
- Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
- Jeremiah 19:9And 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 in the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.
- Ezekiel 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
- Luke 23:28But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
- Job 39:13Gavest thou the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
- Romans 1:31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Commentaries on Lamentations 4:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast - The whales give suck to their young ones. The word תנין tannin, signifies all large and cruel creatures, whether aquatic or terrestrial; and need not here be restrained to the former sort. My Old MS. Bible translates curiously: Not and the cruel bestis that ben clepid Lamya, and thei nakeden ther tetis, geve ther whelpis souken. Like the ostriches in the wilderness - For her carelessness about her eggs, and her…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Sea monsters - Rather, jackals. Their young ones - “Their” whelps. The term is applied only to the young of dogs, lions, and the like.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3like an ostrich: See also Job 39:13–16.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. sea monsters ... breast--Whales and other cetaceous monsters are mammalian. Even they suckle their young; but the Jewish women in the siege, so desperate was their misery, ate theirs (La 4:10; La 2:20). Others translate, "jackals." ostriches--see on Job 39:14; Job 39:16, on their forsaking their young. Daleth.Read the comment
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- 1. Lamentations 4:3 sea...: or, sea calves ↩
Commentaries on Lamentations 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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