Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 4:3
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Lamentations4:3
3. sea monsters ... breast--Whales and other cetaceous monsters are mammalian. Even they suckle their young; but the Jewish women in the siege, so desperate was their misery, ate theirs (La 4:10; La 2:20). Others translate, "jackals."
ostriches--see on Job 39:14; Job 39:16, on their forsaking their young.
Daleth.
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