Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 4:3

3 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 .

But the Jewish Women were become cruel to their Children, either forced to appear so, having through the Famine no milk to give them no[illegible: 1 letter] any thing to relieve them, or were indeed so, killing them to make Food for themselves as chap. 2.20.

Like Ostriches▪ Iob 39.14, 15, 17. that lay their Eggs, and leave them in the sand, and are hardned against their y[illegible: 1 letter]ung ones, (as Iob speaks) some think a kind of Owles are intended, which for want of meat eat up their young ones as the Jewish women now did, See ver. 10.

The learned Authour of our English Annotations, well observeth that what ever creature is here intended by the word Translated Sea monsters, yet our Translation is not proper, the Text speaking of Creatures of Gods making, Monsters, properly signifying such as have something beyond their natural bulk and proportion. What Creatures are signified by the Hebrew term, whether Sea Calves, or Dragons, or Serpents, or Whales is very hard to say, the Hebrew word signifying some Creatures occurring so rarely as it is not easie to determine the Species, from the word used to express it. He certainly speaks of some brute beasts, and those that are most savage, he saith there are none such, but by a natural instinct feed and nourish their young ones.

Marginal references: Or, Sea-calves.