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Poetic visual interpretation: A small anonymous child's empty hands beside a dry clay cup, fully clothed partial view, no emaciation or dying body.
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Lamentations 4:4

Children Ask for Bread

Splendor Lost and Guilt Exposed · Lamentations 4

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 4:4. A small anonymous child's empty hands beside a dry clay cup, fully clothed partial view, no emaciation or dying body. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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4The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of his mouth because of thirst; children ask for bread, but no one breaks it for them.

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