John Trapp on Lamentations 4:3

Ver. 3. Even the ſea-monſters] Heb. Whales or Seales: which, being Amphibii, have both a willingneſſe,Vulg. Lamiae. and a place convenient to ſuckle their whelps.

The daughter of my people is become cruel] She is ſo perforce, being deſtitute of milk for want of food, but much more by feeding upon them, ver. 10. and chap. 2.20. Oh what a mercy is it to have meat! and how inexcuſable are thoſe unnatural mothers that neglect to nurſe their children, not out of want but wantonneſſe! Surely as there is a bleſſing of the womb to bring forth, ſo of the breſts to give ſuck, Gen. 49.25. and the dry breaſts and barren womb have been taken for a curſe, Hoſ. 9.14. as ſome interpret that text.