Lamentations 4:3 Cross References - ECB

³ Even the monsters strip the breast; they suckle their whelps: the daughter of my people is cruel, as ostriches in the wilderness.

²⁹ and you eat the flesh of your sons and you eat the flesh of your daughters.

⁵² and he tribulates you in all your portals until your high and fortified walls topple - wherein you confided, throughout all your land: and he tribulates you in all your portals throughout all the land Yah Veh your Elohim gives you: ⁵³ and you eat the fruit of your own belly - the flesh of your sons and of your daughters; whom Yah Veh your Elohim gives you in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you: ⁵⁴ so that the man among you - tender and mighty delicate, his eye becomes evil toward his brother and toward the woman of his bosom and toward the remnant of his sons who remain: ⁵⁵ so that he gives not one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eats: because he has none to survive him in the siege and in the distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in all your portals. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate among you, who tests not to set the sole of her foot on the earth because of delicateness and tenderness, her eye becomes evil toward the man of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter ⁵⁷ and toward her fetus coming from between her feet and toward the sons she births: for she eats them covertly for lack of all in the siege and distress, wherewith your enemies distress you in your portals.

²⁶ And as the sovereign of Yisra El passes by on the wall, a woman cries out to him, saying, Save, my adoni, O sovereign. ²⁷ And he says, If Yah Veh saves you not, how save I you? From the threshingfloor? Or from the trough? ²⁸ And the sovereign says to her, What ails you? And she says, This woman said to me, Give your son to eat today and eat my son tomorrow: ²⁹ so we stewed my son and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, to eat him: and she hid her son.

¹³ Or pinions to leap for joy? Or plumage to the stork? ¹⁴ - who leaves her eggs in the earth and heats them in dust; ¹⁵ and forgets that the foot may squeeze them; or that the field life may trample them. ¹⁶ She hardens her sons as though they are not hers; her labor is in vain without dread:

¹⁵ Forgets a woman her suckling? Mercies she not the son of her belly? Yes, they forget; but I - I forget you not.

⁹ And I feed them the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and every man eats the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, whereby their enemies and they seeking their souls, distress them.

²⁰ See, O Yah Veh, and look to whom you thus exploit. Are the women to eat their fruit - infants of a palm span? - priest and the prophet slaughtered in the holies of Adonay?

¹⁰ The hands of the mercied women stew their own children; they chew them in the breech of the daughter of my people.

¹⁰ So the fathers eat the sons midst you; and the sons eat their fathers: and I work judgments in you, and I winnow all your survivors into all the winds.

²⁸ And Yah Shua turns to them and says, Daughters of Yeru Shalem, weep not for me: however weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹ For, behold, the days come in which they say, Blessed - the sterile and the wombs that never birthed and the breasts that never nippled.

³¹ uncomprehending, uncovenanted, selfish, disagreeable, unmercied: