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Lam 4:4 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

tongue		Psa 22:15; Psa 137:6
the young		Lam 1:11; Lam 2:11,12; Deu 32:24; Mat 7:9-11

Correlating Passages

tongue

	Psa 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.
	Psa 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.

the young

	Lam 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.
	Lam 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.
	Lam 2:12	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.
	Deu 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.
	Mat 7:9	Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
	Mat 7:10	Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
	Mat 7:11	If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

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Scott, Thomas. "Lamentations 4:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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