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Selected Verse: Lamentations 4:4 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 4:4 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| thirst--The mothers have no milk to give through the famine. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The tongue of the sucking child - See the note on Lam 2:12 (note). |
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.