Lamentations 4:4

God's Word

The tongues of nursing infants stick to the roofs of their mouths because of their thirst. Little children beg for bread, but no one will break off a piece for them.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:27

But the field commander asked them, “Did my master send me to tell these things only to you and your master? Didn’t he send me to the men sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you?”

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth  month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

Psalm 137:6

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like pieces of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me down in the dust of death.

Isaiah 5:13

“My people will go into exile because they don’t understand what I’m doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.”

Jeremiah 14:3

Important people send their assistants out for water. They go to the cisterns, but they don’t find any water. They come back with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and disgraced.

Lamentations 1:11

All the people are groaning as they beg for bread. They trade their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. ‘O Lord, look and see how despised I am!’ ”

Luke 10:11

‘We are wiping your city’s dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that God’s kingdom is near you!’

Deuteronomy 28:48

So you will serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you. You will serve them even though you are already hungry, thirsty, naked, and in need of everything. The Lord will put a heavy burden of hard work on you until he destroys you.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famines and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics. I will send vicious animals against them along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.