Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them. tongue Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. Psalm 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy. the young Lamentations 1:11 Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile. Lamentations 2:11,12 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city. . . . Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. Matthew 7:9-11 Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone? . . . Context The Distress of Zion…3Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. 4Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them.5He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.… Cross References Luke 10:11 Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. Deuteronomy 28:48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. Jeremiah 14:3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads. Lamentations 2:12 Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers. Lexicon The nursing infant’sיוֹנֵ֛ק (yō·w·nêq) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3243: To suck, to give milk tongue לְשׁ֥וֹן (lə·šō·wn) Noun - common singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3956: The tongue clings דָּבַ֨ק (dā·ḇaq) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit in thirst בַּצָּמָ֑א (baṣ·ṣā·mā) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6772: Thirst to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to the roof of his mouth. חכּ֖וֹ (ḥik·kōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2441: Palate, roof of the mouth, gums Little children עֽוֹלָלִים֙ (‘ō·w·lā·lîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 5768: A suckling beg for שָׁ֣אֲלוּ (šā·’ă·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand bread, לֶ֔חֶם (le·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain but no אֵ֥ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle one gives them any. פֹּרֵ֖שׂ (pō·rêś) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6566: To break apart, disperse Additional Translations The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. 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. DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them. 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. 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 to them. The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none. 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