Lamentations 4:3-6

³Even jackals offer their breasts

to nurse their young,

but the daughter of my people has become cruel,

like an ostrich in the wilderness.

⁴The nursing infant’s tongue

clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth.

Little children beg for bread,

but no one gives them any.

⁵Those who once ate delicacies

are destitute in the streets;

those brought up in crimson

huddle in ash heaps.

⁶The punishment of the daughter of my people

is greater than that of Sodom,

which was overthrown in an instant

without a hand turned to help her.

— Lamentations 4:3-6

(BSB)

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Cross References for Lamentations 4:3-6

• Ezekiel 5:10
• Psalm 22:15
• Genesis 19:25
• Luke 16:19
• Lamentations 2:20
• Lamentations 4:10
• Lamentations 2:11-12
• Amos 6:3-7
• Luke 15:16
• Luke 23:28-29

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