Parallel Verses
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}.
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.
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.
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.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:4
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Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
3 Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; [but] the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}. 5 The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie [on] piles of trash.
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Cross References
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.
Lamentations 2:11-12
My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.
Deuteronomy 32:24
[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;
Psalm 137:6
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.
Lamentations 1:11
All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, [how] I am despised.
Matthew 7:9-11
Or what man is [there] among you, [if] his son will ask him [for] bread, will give him a stone?