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.] For want of suck. That was a miracle which is recorded of the old woman of Bolton, in Lancashire, who took up a poor child that lay crying at the breasts of her dead mother - slain, among many others, by Prince Rupert's party - and laying it to her own dry breasts, that had not yielded suck for above twenty years before, on purpose to still it, had milk came to nourish it, to the admiration and astonishment of all beholders. This and another like example of God's good providence for the relief of little ones whom their mothers could not relieve, may be read of in Mr Clark's "Mirror for Saints and Sinners," edit. 3, fol. 495, 507.
And no man breaketh it unto them.] The parents either not having it for them, or not having a heart to part with it to them.