Lamentations 4:4 - Common English BibleThe baby’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth, thirsty. Children ask for bread, beg for it—but there is no bread. See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769The 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. See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic EditionThe tongue of the nursing babe cleaves to the roof of its mouth because of thirst; the young children beg for food, but no one gives it to them. See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)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. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain VersionDALETH. The tongue of the infant adheres to his palate out of thirst. The little ones have asked for bread, and there was no one to break it for them. See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 versionDaleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them. See the chapter |