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Lamentations 4:4

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4The tongue of the nursling cleaves

to its palate in thirst.

Children beg for food,

no one lays it out before them.a

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Footnotes

  1. aLiterally “nothing spreads to them”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks

to the roof of its mouth for thirst;

the children beg for food,

but no one gives to them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue

sticks to the roof of its mouth;

the children beg for bread,

but no one gives it to them.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The nursing baby’s tongue

clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.

Infants beg for food,

but no one gives them any.

NLTNew Living Translation

The parched tongues of their little ones

stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst.

The children cry for bread,

but no one has any to give them.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.