Lam 4:3 | NET2full | STEP | Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast , but my people are cruel , like ostriches in the wilderness .

‏ Lamentations 4:3

ג (Gimel)

3 Even the jackals ^{▼▼tn The noun תַּנִּין (tannin) means “jackals.” The plural ending ־ִין (-in) is diminutive (GKC 242 §87.e) (e.g., Lam 1:4).} nurse their young
at their breast, ^{▼▼tn Heb “draw out the breast and suckle their young.”}
but my people ^{▼▼tn Heb “the daughter of my people.”} are cruel,
like ostriches ^{▼▼tc The MT Kethib form כִּי עֵנִים (ki ʿenim) is by all accounts a variation from an original text of כַּיְעֵנִים (kayʿenim, “like ostriches”) which is preserved in the Qere and the medieval Hebrew mss, and reflected in the LXX.} in the wilderness.