Verse 16

So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.

Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:3 : 3 The dragons geue their young ones sucke with bare brestes: but the daughter of my people is cruel, like the Estriches in the wildernesse.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire? the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Without vnderstandyng, couenaunt breakers, without naturall affection, truice breakers, vnmercyfull.
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate, that she dare not aduenture to set the sole of her foote vpon the grounde, for softnesse and tendernesse, shalbe greeued to loke on her husbande that lieth in her bosome, & on her sonne, and on her daughter, 57 And on her afterbyrth that is come out from betweene her feete, and her chyldren whiche she shall beare: For when all thinges lacke, she shall eate them secretly, duryng the siege & straitnesse wherewith thyne enemies shall besiege thee in thy cities.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king (for her bowelles yerned vpon her sonne) and sayde: I besech thee my lorde geue her the liuing childe, and in no wyse slay it: But the other sayde, Let it be neither myne nor thyne, but deuide it. 27 Then the king aunswered and sayde: Geue her the liuing childe, and slay it not, for she is the mother therof.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king sayde vnto her: What wilt thou? She aunswered: Yonder woman sayd vnto me, Bring thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate myne to morowe. 29 And so we dressed my sonne, and dyd eate him: And I sayde to her the other day, bring thy sonne, that we may eate him: And she hath hyd her sonne.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labour of the foolishe is greeuous vnto them, whyle they know not howe to go into the citie.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Beholde O Lorde, and consider to whom thou hast done thus: Shall the women then eate their owne fruite, euen chyldren of a spanne long? shall the priestes and prophetes be slayne in the sanctuarie of the Lorde?