Lamentations 4:4
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 4
“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.”Lamentations 4:4
What Does Lamentations 4:4 Mean?
Lamentations 4:4 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 4, verse 4 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 15 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (15)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 4:4 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 22:15“My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.”Lamentations 2:11“Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.”2 Kings 25:3“And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.”Psalms 137:6“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”Isaiah 41:17“When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.”Jeremiah 2:25“Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.”Deuteronomy 32:24“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”Deuteronomy 32:25“The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.”Isaiah 5:13“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.”Isaiah 8:21“And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.”Jeremiah 37:21“Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.”Jeremiah 52:6“And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.”Lamentations 1:11“All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.”Matthew 7:9“Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?”Psalms 59:15“Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.”
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