Lamentations 4:4

Tree of Life Version

The nursing infant’s tongue clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. Little children ask for bread, but no one gives it t0 them.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall—who will eat their own wastes and drink their own urine with you?”

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no bread for the common people.

Psalm 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I cease to remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psalm 22:15

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax— melting within my innards.

Isaiah 5:13

“Therefore My people are in captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitudes parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 14:3

Their nobles will send their lads for water. They come to the cisterns, but find no water. Their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they seek bread. They traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Adonai, and see! For I have become despised!”

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your town sticking to our feet, we wipe off as a witness to you. But know this! The kingdom of God has come near.’

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 32:24

Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague and pestilence so bitter, fangs of beasts I’ll let loose on them, with venom of creepers in the dust.