Text -- Lamentations 4:3 (NET)

4:3 ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 4:3

¹ tn The noun תַּנִּין (tannin) means “jackals.” The plural ending ־ִין (-in) is diminutive (GKC 242 §87.e) (e.g., Lam 1:4).

² tn Heb “draw out the breast and suckle their young.”

³ tn Heb “the daughter of my people.”

⁴ tc 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.