³ On the ninth day of the fourth month ^(A)the famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

⁹ “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he ^[a]will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is ^(A)no more bread in the city.”

⁶ On the ninth day of the ^(A)fourth month, the ^(B)famine was so strong in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.