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.
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Gill's Exposition
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast,.... Which some interpret of dragons; others of seals, or sea calves; but it is best to understand it of whales, as the word is rendered in Gen 1:21; and…
Barnes' Notes
Sea monsters - Rather, jackals. Their young ones - “Their” whelps. The term is applied only to the young of dogs, lions, and the like.
Adam Clarke
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast - The whales give suck to their young ones. The word תנין tannin, signifies all large and cruel creatures, whether aquatic or terrestrial; and need not here…
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so…
Cambridge Bible
the jackals See on Jer 9:11; Jer 51:34.
like the ostriches in the wilderness Cp. C.B. (Davidson) on Job 39:15 f. for "the popular belief that the ostrich did not brood but left her eggs to be hatched…
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