And Rabshakeh will say to them, To thy lord and to thee did my lord send me to speak these words? is it not to the men sitting upon the wall to eat their dung and to drink their piss with you?
Lamentations 4:4 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Bible - Classic Edition The 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. American 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. Common English Bible The baby’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth, thirsty. Children ask for bread, beg for it—but there is no bread. Catholic Public Domain Version DALETH. 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Daleth. 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. |
And Rabshakeh will say to them, To thy lord and to thee did my lord send me to speak these words? is it not to the men sitting upon the wall to eat their dung and to drink their piss with you?
In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land.
My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.
For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst
And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head.
All her people sighing, seeking bread; they gave from their delights for food to turn back the soul: see, O Jehovah, and regard; for I was despised.
And the dust having cleaved to us from your city, we wipe off to you but know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn nigh to you.
And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.
Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust