...pitchers, The handiwork of the potter! Gimel Even jackals draw out the breast to give suck to their young. The daughter of my people is become cruel Like the ostriches in the wilderness. 1 In Poems III, IV and V, the letters Pe and Ain change places in the numbering of the strophes. It...

...their young ones : The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. D The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst : E They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets : They that were brought up in scarlet...

...Jeremiah gives a poetic description of a mother who refuses to nurse her baby: ' Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young...the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking-child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst " (Lam. iv. 3, 4). Orphaned babies used...

..."The precious sons of Zion — how are they become as earthen jugs!" (Ibid.).11 4:3 Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness. 4:4 The tongue of the nursing child cleaves to...

...are the fodder and rust grows on the sickle; moss spreads over the well and spiders web the troughs. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; their skin is withered like a stick and they pine away, stricken, for the fruits of the field. The...

...up to Israel] measure for measure, [for the destruction of the Temple by their foes]. As it is said, The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst (Lam. 4:4), so God said: Let My tongue cleave to the roof of My mouth [ if I do not satisfy My thirst...

...are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the sea monsters and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy daughterof my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking...

...how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young...roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:...

...in the sand, and leaving them to hatch alone. lThe biblical text in question was Lamentations 4:3: "The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.**l lt encouraged dangerous passivity in parents and moral frustration — and, in some...

...Christian Nurture Bushnell's answer to such dilemmas was clear and compelling. Citing Lamentations 4:3 ("The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness"), he excoriated parents who, like the biblical ostriches leaving their eggs in the sand to be warmed...