Jeremiah 52:6
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6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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Jeremiah 39:2
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2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
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Isaiah 3:1
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Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem
3 For behold, the (A)Lord God of hosts
is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and supply,[a]
all (B)support of bread,
and all support of water;
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- Isaiah 3:1 Hebrew staff
Jeremiah 38:9
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9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of (A)hunger, (B)for there is no bread left in the city.”
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2 Kings 25:3
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3 On the ninth day of the fourth month (A)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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Zechariah 8:19
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Ezekiel 7:15
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15 (A)The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. (B)He who is in the field dies by the sword, (C)and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
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Ezekiel 5:10-12
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10 Therefore (A)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. (B)And I will execute judgments on you, (C)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 11 Therefore, (D)as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, (E)because you have defiled my sanctuary (F)with all your detestable things and with all your (G)abominations, (H)therefore I will withdraw.[a] (I)My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 12 (J)A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; (K)a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; (L)and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
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- Ezekiel 5:11 Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down
Ezekiel 4:9-17
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9 “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,[a] and put them into a single vessel and make your (A)bread from them. (B)During the number of days that you lie on your side, (C)390 days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you eat shall be (D)by weight, (E)twenty shekels[b] a day; from day to day[c] you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink (F)by measure, the sixth part of a hin;[d] from day to day you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it (G)in their sight on human dung.” 13 And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat (H)their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” 14 Then I said, (I)“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself.[e] (J)From my youth up till now I have never eaten (K)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has (L)tainted meat come into my mouth.” 15 Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 16 Moreover, he said to me, (M)“Son of man, behold, (N)I will break the supply[f] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread (O)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water (P)by measure and in dismay. 17 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and (Q)look at one another in dismay, and (R)rot away because of their punishment.
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- Ezekiel 4:9 A type of wheat
- Ezekiel 4:10 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Ezekiel 4:10 Or at a set time daily; also verse 11
- Ezekiel 4:11 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
- Ezekiel 4:14 Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean
- Ezekiel 4:16 Hebrew staff
Lamentations 5:10
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Lamentations 4:4-6
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4 The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(C)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 (D)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(E)which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[c]
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- Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
- Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 25:10
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10 Moreover, (A)I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, (B)the grinding of the millstones and (C)the light of the lamp.
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Jeremiah 21:9
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9 He who stays in this city shall die (A)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and (B)surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live (C)and shall have his life as a prize of war.
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Jeremiah 19:9
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9 (A)And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor (B)in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
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Jeremiah 15:2
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2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
(A)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
Deuteronomy 32:24
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24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (A)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (B)things that crawl in the dust.
Deuteronomy 28:52-53
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And (B)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (C)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
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Leviticus 26:26
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26 (A)When I break your supply[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (B)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
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