By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped h
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts agains
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of t
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for y
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—swor
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives t
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen
If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, t
The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city wi
Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight,
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distr
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against yo