⁹ “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern,^(A) where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread^(B) in the city.”

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.^(A)

¹⁰ Weigh out twenty shekels^[a](A) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

¹⁶ He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off^(A) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,^(B)