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Lam 4:3 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

sea monsters		or, sea calves
the daughter		Lam 2:20; Lam 4:10; Lev 26:29; Deu 28:52-57; 2Ki 6:26-29; Isa 49:15; Jer 19:9; Eze 5:10; Luk 23:28,29
like		Job 39:13-16; Rom 1:31

Correlating Passages

the daughter

	Lam 2:20	Behold, 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 4:10	The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
	Lev 26:29	And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
	Deu 28:52	And 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.
	Deu 28:53	And 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:
	Deu 28:54	[So 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:
	Deu 28:55	So 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.
	Deu 28:56	The 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,
	Deu 28:57	And 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.
	2Ki 6:26	And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
	2Ki 6:27	And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
	2Ki 6:28	And 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.
	2Ki 6:29	So 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.
	Isa 49:15	Can 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.
	Jer 19:9	And 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.
	Eze 5:10	Therefore 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.
	Luk 23:28	But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
	Luk 23:29	For, 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.

	Job 39:13	[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
	Job 39:14	Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
	Job 39:15	And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
	Job 39:16	She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
	Rom 1:31	Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 4:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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