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.”

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.

¹⁰ And your food that you eat shall be ^(A)by weight, ^(B)twenty shekels^[a] a day; from day to day^[b] you shall eat it.

¹⁶ Moreover, he said to me, ^(A)“Son of man, behold, ^(B)I will break the supply^[a] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread ^(C)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water ^(D)by measure and in dismay.