耶利米哀歌 4:3-4 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:3-5

The horrors of famine. A more graphic, a more terrible picture than this of the misery of a captured, starved, and desolated city, no pencil could paint. If the circumstances of the famine-stricken population of Jerusalem are portrayed with too literal a skill and with too sickening an effect, it must be borne in mind that the description is not that of an artist, but of a prophet, and that the aim is not merely to horrify, but to instruct, and especially to represent the frightful... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Lamentations 4:4

Breaketh it unto them. The Jewish bread, consisting of round or oval cakes. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 4:3

Sea monsters - Rather, jackals.Their young ones - “Their” whelps. The term is applied only to the young of dogs, lions, and the like. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 4:3-5

Lamentations 4:3-5. Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn out the breast: so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals are not so unnatural as to neglect the care of their young ones; whereas the women of Jerusalem have been reduced to that miserable necessity as to disregard their children, as the ostrich does her eggs. The tongue of the sucking child, &c. Such was the scarcity of food, that the women had not nourishment sufficient to produce... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Lamentations 4:1-22

Corrupt leaders disgraced (4:1-22)Jerusalem’s former glory is contrasted with her present ruin. The once glorious temple, now defiled and shattered, is symbolic of the once glorious people now shamed and broken. Jerusalem’s dead lie in the streets like pieces of broken pottery (4:1-2). The writer recalls again the scene of horror during the siege. Wild beasts provide food for their young, but in Jerusalem mothers are unable to provide food for their children. Rich nobles die on the streets like... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 4:3

ostriches. Compare Job 39:13-17 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 4:3

Lamentations 4:3. Sea-monsters—give suck to their young ones— See Job 39:13-14, and Parkhurst on the word ענה anah. We are told by voyagers, that the sea lioness, and other sea-monsters, have dugs with which they give suck. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 4:3

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 (Lamentations 4:10; Lamentations 2:20). Others translate, "jackals." ostriches—see on Lamentations 2:20- :; Lamentations 2:20- :, on their forsaking their young. Daleth. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown