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Even a wild dog feeds her babies.
    Even the jackal lets her pups suck at her breast.
But the daughter of my people[a] is cruel.
    She is like the ostrich in the desert that forgets its eggs in the sand.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:3 daughter of my people Another name for Jerusalem. Also in verse 6.

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