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Lamentations 4:4

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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

The tongue {H3956} of the sucking child {H3243} cleaveth {H1692} to the roof of his mouth {H2441} for thirst {H6772}: the young children {H5768} ask {H7592} bread {H3899}, and no man breaketh {H6566} it unto them.

The tongue of the baby at the breast sticks to the roof of its mouth from thirst; young children are begging for bread, but no one is giving them any.

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 22:15 (5 votes)

    My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Lamentations 2:11 (4 votes)

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Lamentations 2:12 (4 votes)

    They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

  • Lamentations 1:11 (2 votes)

    All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

  • Matthew 7:9 (2 votes)

    Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

  • Matthew 7:11 (2 votes)

    If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

  • Psalms 137:6 (2 votes)

    If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.