Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
3 Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any. 5 Those who enjoyed delicacies lie desolate in the streets. Those who were reared wearing purple scavenge in piles of trash.
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Cross References
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.
Lamentations 2:11-12
My eyes are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Deuteronomy 32:24
Emaciated from famine, feverish from plague, and destroyed by bitterness, I'll send fanged beasts against them, along with poisonous snakes that glide through the dust.
Psalm 137:6
May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.
Lamentations 1:11
All her people groaned as they searched for food. They traded their valuables in order to eat, to keep themselves alive. Look, LORD, and see how I have become dishonored.
Matthew 7:9-11
"There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?