Lamentations 4:10 details the consequence: compassionate women cook their children, directly fulfilling the heartlessness introduced in verse 3.

Lamentations 2:20 also describes mothers eating their children, the same horror that underlies the heartless ostriches image here.

Lamentations 2:11 describes infants fainting and weeping over the daughter of my people, directly reinforcing the same scene of child suffering.

Leviticus 26:29 is the covenant curse predicting parents eating children—the very judgment Lamentations describes.

Deuteronomy 28:52-57 expands the curse with graphic detail of mothers eating their children, matching Lamentations' depiction.

2 Kings 6:26-29 records a historical siege where a woman boils her son, paralleling the cannibalism Lamentations laments.

Job 39:13-16 describes the ostrich's neglect of her eggs, the exact image Lamentations uses to illustrate the people's cruelty.

Jeremiah 19:9 prophesies parents eating children during siege—Lamentations witnesses this prophecy coming true.

Ezekiel 5:10 also prophesies parents eating children as judgment, directly aligning with Lamentations' account.

Luke 23:29 intensifies the theme: in judgment, barrenness is blessed, just as Lamentations describes mothers abandoning their young as unnatural.

Deuteronomy 28:56 predicted mothers' extreme cruelty during siege, which Lamentations here describes as 'cruel like ostriches.'

Job 39:16 explicitly says the ostrich 'deals cruelly with her young,' the same comparison Lamentations uses for the people.

Isaiah 49:15 asks if a mother can forget her child—Lamentations shows it happening, but Isaiah assures God never forgets.

Jeremiah 32:24 describes siege and famine, providing the backdrop of judgment that led to the cruelty and neglect in Lamentations.

Ezekiel 16:5 uses the image of an abandoned infant to portray Jerusalem's history, mirroring the ostriches' neglect in Lamentations.

Romans 1:31 lists 'without natural affection,' matching the cruel neglect here as a sign of moral depravity.