2 Kings 6:25-27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. ²⁶ Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!” ²⁷ He said, “No! Let the Lord help you. How can I help you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?”