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.

四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。

四月初九，城里的饥荒非常严重，当地的百姓都没有粮食。

四月初九，城里的饥荒非常严重，当地的百姓都没有粮食。

那年四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，百姓无粮可吃。

四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，甚至那地的人民都断了粮食。

四月初九日，城裏有大饑荒，甚至百姓都沒有糧食。

四月初九，城裏的饑荒非常嚴重，當地的百姓都沒有糧食。

四月初九，城裏的饑荒非常嚴重，當地的百姓都沒有糧食。

那年四月九日，城裡饑荒非常嚴重，百姓無糧可吃。

四月九日，城裡饑荒非常嚴重，甚至那地的人民都斷了糧食。

四月九日、城裏大鬧饑荒，甚至當地的人民都沒有糧食。

四月九日、邑中饑甚、斯土之民絕糧、

四月九日、邑民糧罄饑甚。

四月九日、城中之民絕糧、饑甚、

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.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, there wasn’t any food left in the city. So the people didn’t have anything to eat.

By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.

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.

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

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.

And on the ninth[ day] of the[ fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

“ They shall 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.And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

“ For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

“ Thus says the Lord: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.

When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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.

“ And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”And the Lord said,“ Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”Then I said,“ Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”Then he said to me,“ See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”Moreover, he said to me,“ Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.