Lamentations 4:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says that sucking children were so thirsty, that the tongue was as it were fixed to the palate; and it was a dreadful thing; for mothers would willingly pour forth their own blood to feed th...
Lamentations 4:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - See the note on La...
Lamentations 4:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ro...
Lamentations 4:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's former Glory contrasted with her present Humiliation In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom....
Lamentations 4:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CONTRASTS Lamentations 4:1-12 IN form the fourth elegy is slightly different from each of its predecessors. Following the characteristic plan of the Book of Lamentations, it is an acrostic of t...
Lamentations 4:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they...
Lamentations 4:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst ,.... Through want of the milk of the breast, which is both food and drink unto it: the young children ask bread ; of t...
Lamentations 4:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth...
Lamentations 4:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast The very dragons have drawn out the breast: so Blaney. Even these fierce and destructive animals are not so unnatural as to neglect the care of their young...
Lamentations 4:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. B. C. 588....
Lamentations 4:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As the fatness of the mother's milk makes it instead of bread and flesh to the sucking child, so the moisture of it makes it to be as drink to allay its heat; the children wanting this moisture, thei...
Lamentations 4:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Condition Of The People Of Jerusalem Due To The Anger Of YHWH ( Lamentations 4:1-11 ). Lamentations 4:1 (Aleph) How is the gold become dim! How is the most pure gold changed! The (pre...
Lamentations 4:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ג). Lamentations 4:3 . Beasts of prey show affection for their brood. Even the jackals draw out —present— the breast; a familiar fact testifying that they were true to thei...
Lamentations 4:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jerusalem's Affliction a Punishment for her Guilt
Lamentations 4:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Lamentations 1:11 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 2:12 ; Matthew 7:9-11 ; Psalms 137:6 ; Psalms 22:15

Lamentations 4:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge