Lamentations 4:3

the jackals See on Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 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 in the sun.… The belief is not sustained by observation, except to this extent, that the bird does not brood till her complement of eggs (thirty in number) be laid, and that during the earlier part of incubation she often leaves the nest by day to go in search of food. It is also said that she lays a number of eggs outside the nest, which are not incubated but serve as food for the poults when they are hatched."