Jeremiah 52:6
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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.
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Jeremiah 39:2
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2 In the (A)eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the [a]city was penetrated.
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- Jeremiah 39:2 city wall was breached
Isaiah 3:1
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Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem
3 For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
(A)Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
(B)The[a] stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;
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- Isaiah 3:1 Every support
Jeremiah 38:9
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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 dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is (A)no more bread in the city.”
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2 Kings 25:3
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3 By the ninth day of the (A)fourth month the famine had become 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 14:21
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21 For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when (A)I send My four [a]severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?
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- Ezekiel 14:21 Lit. evil
Ezekiel 7:15
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15 (A)The sword is outside,
And the pestilence and famine within.
Whoever is in the field
Will die by the sword;
And whoever is in the city,
Famine and pestilence will devour him.
Ezekiel 5:10-12
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10 Therefore fathers (A)shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will (B)scatter to all the winds.
11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have (C)defiled My sanctuary with all your (D)detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; (E)My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 (F)One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and (G)I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after (H)them.
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Ezekiel 4:9-17
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9 “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight.”
13 Then the Lord said, “So (A)shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.”
14 So I said, (B)“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten (C)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has (D)abominable[a] flesh ever come into my mouth.”
15 Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”
16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the (E)supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall (F)eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall (G)drink water by measure and with dread, 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and (H)waste away because of their iniquity.
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- Ezekiel 4:14 Ritually unclean flesh, Lev. 7:18
Lamentations 5:10
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10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
Lamentations 4:4-6
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4 The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(A)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
(B)Embrace ash heaps.
6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the (C)sin of Sodom,
Which was (D)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!
Jeremiah 25:10
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10 Moreover I will [a]take from them the (A)voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, (B)the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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- Jeremiah 25:10 Lit. cause to perish from them
Jeremiah 21:9
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9 He who (A)remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and [a]defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall (B)live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.
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- Jeremiah 21:9 Lit. falls away to
Jeremiah 19:9
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9 And I will cause them to eat the (A)flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’
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Jeremiah 15:2
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2 And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Such as are for death, to death;
And such as are for the sword, to the sword;
And such as are for the famine, to the famine;
And such as are for the (B)captivity, to the captivity.” ’
Deuteronomy 32:24
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24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the (A)teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.
Deuteronomy 28:52-53
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (B)You shall eat the [a]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
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- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
Leviticus 26:26
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26 (A)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (B)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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