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.
و وقتی با خطر روبرو می‌شوند ،‏ هم نر و هم ماده ،‏ هر دو پا به فرار گذاشته جوجه‌هایشان را رها می‌کنند .‏