Lamentations 4:4 Cross References

Lamentations 4:4

4: The parched tongues of their little ones stick with thirst to the roofs of their mouths. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.

Psalms 22:15

  1. My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

Lamentations 2:11

  1. I have cried until the tears no longer come. My heart is broken, my spirit poured out, as I see what has happened to my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.
  2. "Mama, we want food," they cry, and then collapse in their mothers' arms. Their lives ebb away like the life of a warrior wounded in battle.

Psalms 137:6

  1. May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I don't make Jerusalem my highest joy.

Deuteronomy 32:24

  1. I will send against them wasting famine, burning fever, and deadly disease. They will be troubled by the fangs of wild beasts, by poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.

Lamentations 1:11

  1. Her people groan as they search for bread. They have sold their treasures for food to stay alive. "O LORD, look," she mourns, "and see how I am despised.

Matthew 7:9

  1. You parents--if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?
  2. Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not!
  3. If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
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