Lamentations 4:3 meaning and explanation
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, mourning Jerusalem after its destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. He compares the city, called the daughter of my people, with jackals, which nurse their young, and with the ostrich, popularly thought to abandon its eggs.
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