⁵⁵ so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.

⁶ By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

² “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Go and ^(A)speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, ^(B)I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.