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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Lamentations 4:3

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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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 (Lam 4:10; Lam 2:20). Others translate, "jackals." ostriches--see on Job 39:14; Job 39:16, on their forsaking their young.
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