Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.
New American Standard Bible
To the roof of its mouth because of
The little ones
But no one breaks it for them.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
ד Dalet
clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one gives them any.
International Standard Version
The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
A Conservative Version
The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for food,
But no one gives it to them.
Bible in Basic English
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
Darby Translation
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.
King James 2000
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.
Modern King James verseion
The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Daleth} The tongues of the sucking children, cleave to the roof of their mouths for very thirst. The young children ask bread, but there is no man that giveth it them.
NET Bible
(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.
New Heart English Bible
The nursing infant's tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, but no one gives to them.
The Emphasized Bible
The tongue of the suckling, cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst, - Young children, have asked bread, there was none, to break, it to them.
Webster
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 to them.
World English Bible
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
3 Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert. 4 The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them. 5 They eating for dainties were desolate in the streets: they trusting upon scarlet embraced dung hills.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 22:15
My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.
Lamentations 2:11-12
Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.
Deuteronomy 32:24
Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
Psalm 137:6
My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
Lamentations 1:11
All her people sighing, seeking bread; they gave from their delights for food to turn back the soul: see, O Jehovah, and regard; for I was despised.
Matthew 7:9-11
Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?