Cross references
Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals
offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- a Or serpents or dragons
Lamentations 4:3 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 5:10 (5 votes) and Luke 23:28–29 (5 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 41 to Romans 1.
Which verses does Lamentations 4:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ezekiel 5:105 votes
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
- Luke 23:28–295 votes
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- Lamentations 2:204 votes
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 4:104 votes
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Leviticus 26:293 votes
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Deuteronomy 28:52–573 votes
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you. Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. …
- 2 Kings 6:26–293 votes
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?” …
- Job 39:13–163 votes
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork. For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. …
- Jeremiah 19:93 votes
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Isaiah 49:152 votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Romans 1:312 votes
Which verses point to Lamentations 4:3?
The 10 strongest of 19.