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Lamentations 4

Lam. 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Even the ζsea monsters
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
draw out
chalats (Hebrew #2502)
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
KJV usage: arm (self), (go, ready) armed (X man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.
Pronounce: khaw-lats'
Origin: a primitive root
the breast
shad (Hebrew #7699)
probably from 7736 (in its original sense) contracted; the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
KJV usage: breast, pap, teat.
Pronounce: shad
Origin: or shod {shode}
, they give suck
yanaq (Hebrew #3243)
to suck; causatively, to give milk
KJV usage: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Pronounce: yaw-nak'
Origin: a primitive root
to their young ones
guwr (Hebrew #1482)
perhaps from 1481; a cub (as still abiding in the lair), especially of the lion
KJV usage: whelp, young one.
Pronounce: goor
Origin: or (shortened) gur {goor}
: the daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
is become cruel
'akzar (Hebrew #393)
violent; by implication deadly; also (in a good sense) brave
KJV usage: cruel, fierce.
Pronounce: ak-zawr'
Origin: from an unused root (apparently meaning to act harshly)
, like the ostriches
ya`en (Hebrew #3283)
the ostrich (probably from its answering cry
KJV usage: ostrich.
Pronounce: yaw-ane'
Origin: from the same as 3282
p in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
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or, sea calves.
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Job 39:13‑16• 13The wing of the ostrich beats joyously--But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
 14For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. (Job 39:13‑16)

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Breasts,
Daughter,
Ostrich,
Sea,
Sea Monster,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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sea monsters.
or, sea calves.
the daughter.
Lam. 2:20• 20See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (Lam. 2:20)
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Lam. 4:10• 10The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 4:10)
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Lev. 26:29• 29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. (Lev. 26:29)
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Deut. 28:52‑57• 52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
 53And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
 54The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;
 55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
 56The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,
 57because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. (Deut. 28:52‑57)
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2 Kings 6:26‑29• 26And it came to pass as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him saying, Help, my lord O king!
 27And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence should I help thee? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
 28And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, This woman said to me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
 29And we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she has hidden her son. (2 Kings 6:26‑29)
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Isa. 49:15• 15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee. (Isa. 49:15)
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Jer. 19:9• 9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. (Jer. 19:9)
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Ezek. 5:10• 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 to all the winds. (Ezek. 5:10)
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Luke 23:28‑29• 28And Jesus turning round to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and over your children;
 29for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck. (Luke 23:28‑29)
like.
Job 39:13‑16• 13The wing of the ostrich beats joyously--But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
 14For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. (Job 39:13‑16)
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Rom. 1:31• 31void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:31)
• The chosen nation's cup was not full of the indignity they must drink till they were the bitterest, out of sheer want and woe, against their own kin. Job 39:14-17 (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.