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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• 13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
 14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear; (Job 39:13‑16)

More on:

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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• 20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (Lam. 2:20)
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Lam. 4:10• 10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction 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 fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, 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.
 53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
 54So that the man that 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:
 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure 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 cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. (Deut. 28:52‑57)
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2 Kings 6:26‑29• 26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
 27And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
 28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
 29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid 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? yea, they may forget, yet will I 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 every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and 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 into all the winds. (Ezek. 5:10)
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Luke 23:28‑29• 28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
 29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. (Luke 23:28‑29)
like.
Job 39:13‑16• 13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
 14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear; (Job 39:13‑16)
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Rom. 1:31• 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Even the dragonsa draw out the breast, they suckle their young:{HR}The daughter of my people [is] cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, jackals.