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.
Even the sea monsters draw out the 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 note, Job 39:14; Job 39:16, on their forsaking their young. [Daleth (d)]