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

Lamentations 4:3

ג (Gimel)

3 Even the jackals ^{▼▼ 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, ^{▼▼ Heb “draw out the breast and suckle their young.”}
but my people ^{▼▼ Heb “the daughter of my people.”} are cruel,
like ostriches ^{▼▼ The MT Kethib form כִּי עֵנִים (ki ’enim) is by all accounts a textual corruption for כַּיְעֵנִים (kay’enim, “like ostriches”) which is preserved in the Qere and the medieval Hebrew mss, and reflected in the LXX.} in the desert.