KJV ORIGINAL
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Even sea creatures nurse their babies and take care of their young. But my people? They've become heartless toward their own children, like ostriches that abandon their eggs in the desert.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
When survival gets desperate, even basic love can break down — and that's the most heartbreaking loss of all.
📜 Historical Context — Why was this verse written?
The book of Lamentations is traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, written for the Jewish people shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem in the early 6th century BCE. It was written to mourn the catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonian army, and the resulting suffering and exile of its inhabitants.
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