Lamentations 4:3
Berean Standard Bible
Even jackals * offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Context
1How * the gold has become tarnished,
the pure gold has become dull!
The gems of the temple lie scattered
on every street corner. 2How the precious sons of Zion,
once worth their weight in pure gold,
are now esteemed as jars of clay,
the work of a potter’s hands! 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.
English text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB). English audio: Berean Standard Audio Bible.