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

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.

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 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.

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 of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

“ For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!

“ The LORD says,‘ Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.’”

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.ה( He)Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.ו( Vav)The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.ז( Zayin)Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli.ח( Khet)Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.ט( Tet)Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.י( Yod)The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.כ( Kaf)

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

“ As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”And the LORD said,“ This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”And I said,“ Ah, sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”So he said to me,“ All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”Then he said to me,“ Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terrorbecause they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

“ The LORD who rules over all says,‘ The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.