...of a potter's hands!1" Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people have become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives them...

...are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young...become) cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children...

...words. The children ! it is the sight of them in their destitution which is the most dreadful of all. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth, the young children ask for bread and no man breaketh it to them ; and there are still more, aad more...

...hunted that it has virtually disappeared from the wild in the Middle East. Lamentations (4:3) observes: "The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness." This description apparently reflects the fact that ostriches fleeing danger may inadvertently injure...

...Shakespeare, perhaps especially in King Lear, is from the Lamentations of Jeremiah: "Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughters of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness" (Lam 4:3). The Geneva...

...breast: Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst. (Lam. 4:3-4) Indeed, Jesus saw those days of...

..."Let them graze where they want, let them do their own thing." In the Book of Lamentations we read, "The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness" (4:3). Job, too, depicts the ostrich as an example of un-motherhood: She leaves her eggs on the ground,...