All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
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.
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped h
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city,
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they hav
Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfor
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shek
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
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives t
“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the
My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.