During the Babylonian siege, the famine in Jerusalem became so severe that mothers who would normally have been compassionate became cruel to their own offspring, like ostriches in the wilderness.
बॅबिलोनने जेरुसलेमला वेढा दिला तेव्हा शहरातील दुष्काळ इतका विकोपाला गेला की स्वाभाविकरित्या स्वतःच्या मुलांवर माया करणाऱ्‍या मातांनी रानातल्या शहामृगांप्रमाणे आपल्या मुलांशी क्रूरता केली.