Lamentations 4:4

New English Translation

⁴The infant’s tongue sticks
to the roof of its mouth due to thirst;
little children beg for bread,^[a]
but no one gives them even a morsel.^[b]

Lamentations 4:4 tn Heb “bread.” The term “bread” might function as a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for general (= food); however, the following parallel line does indeed focus on the act of breaking bread in two.
Lamentations 4:4 tn Heb “there is not a divider to them.” The term “divider” refers to the action of breaking bread in two before giving it to a person to eat (Isa 58:7; Jer 16:7; Lam 4:4).

Lamentations 4:4

New International Version

⁴Because of thirst^(A) the infant’s tongue
sticks to the roof of its mouth;^(B)
the children beg for bread,
but no one gives it to them.^(C)

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