Lamentations 4:4

New Century Version

The babies are so thirsty their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths. Children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:27

“No,” the commander said, “my master did not send me to tell these things only to you and your king. He sent me to speak also to those people sitting on the wall who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine like you.”

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

Psalm 137:6

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not think about Jerusalem as my greatest joy.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like a clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the top of my mouth. You laid me in the dust of death.

Isaiah 5:13

So my people will be captured and taken away, because they don’t really know me. All the great people will die of hunger, and the common people will die of thirst.

Jeremiah 14:3

The important men send their servants to get water. They go to the wells, but they find no water. So they return with empty jars. They are ashamed and embarrassed and cover their heads in shame.

Lamentations 1:11

All of Jerusalem’s people groan, looking for bread. They are trading their precious things for food so they can stay alive. The city says, “Look, Lord, and see. I am hated.”

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the kingdom of God is near.’

Deuteronomy 28:48

so you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, naked, and poor, and the Lord will put a load on you until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved and sick, destroyed by terrible diseases. I will send them vicious animals and gliding, poisonous snakes.