Lamentations 4:3; Lamentations 4:4; Lamentations 4:5; Lamentations 4:10

Lamentations 4:3

3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.

Lamentations 4:4

4 Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

Lamentations 4:5

5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

Lamentations 4:10

10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.