All Jerusalem’s people groan as they search for bread. They trade their treasures for food just to stay alive. Jerusalem says,“ Lord, look at me. Think about my condition. Everyone looks down on me.”

她的民都叹息，寻求食物；他们用美物换粮食，要救性命。他们说：“耶和华啊，求你观看，因为我甚是卑贱。”

她的百姓都叹息，寻求食物；他们用贵重物品换取粮食，要救性命。“耶和华啊，求你观看，留意我多么卑微。”

她的百姓都叹息，寻求食物；他们用贵重物品换取粮食，要救性命。“耶和华啊，求你观看，留意我多么卑微。”

她的人民呻吟着四处觅食，用珍宝换取粮食维生。她说：“耶和华啊，求你眷顾我，因为我被人蔑视。

她所有的人民都在唉哼，到处寻觅食物；他们为了维持生命，拿自己的珍宝去换取粮食。她说：“耶和华啊！求你垂看，求你鉴察，因为我被人藐视。”

她的民都歎息，尋求食物；他們用美物換糧食，要救性命。他們說：耶和華啊，求你觀看，因為我甚是卑賤。

她的百姓都嘆息，尋求食物；他們用貴重物品換取糧食，要救性命。「耶和華啊，求你觀看，留意我多麼卑微。」

她的百姓都嘆息，尋求食物；他們用貴重物品換取糧食，要救性命。「耶和華啊，求你觀看，留意我多麼卑微。」

她的人民呻吟著四處覓食，用珍寶換取糧食維生。她說：「耶和華啊，求你眷顧我，因為我被人蔑視。

她所有的人民都在唉哼，到處尋覓食物；他們為了維持生命，拿自己的珍寶去換取糧食。她說：“耶和華啊！求你垂看，求你鑒察，因為我被人藐視。”

她的人民都歎息着尋求食物；他們用可愛的寶物去換取糧食，來恢復精神，說：『看哦，永恆主啊，垂看哦！我是多麼被輕蔑啊！』

民皆嗟歎求糧兮、以嘉物易食、欲蘇其靈兮、耶和華歟、我成卑鄙、願爾垂顧兮、

邑眾咨嗟、願舍欣羨之物、以求糈糧、庶堪果腹兮、郇民曰、今予受辱、望耶和華眷顧兮。

其眾嗟嘆、尋求食物、以珍寶易糧、庶可充饑、庶可充饑或作為欲度生今我受辱、求主鑒察眷顧、

All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive.“ Look, Lord, and consider, for I am despised.”

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength.“ Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised.”

Her people groan as they search for bread. They have sold their treasures for food to stay alive.“ O Lord, look,” she mourns,“ and see how I am despised.

All her people groan while they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for food in order to stay alive. LORD, look and see how I have become despised.

All her people groan, seeking bread; They have given their treasures for food To restore their lives.“ See, Lord, and look, For I am despised.”

All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life.“ See, O Lord, and consider, For I am scorned.”

All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

All her people groan while they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for food in order to stay alive. Lord, look and see how I have become despised.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive.“ Look, O Lord! Consider that I have become worthless!”ל( Lamed)

All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.“ Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become despised.”

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.

“ My king and master, everything these men have done to Jeremiah the prophet is evil. They have thrown him into an empty well. Soon there won’t be any more bread in the city. Then he’ll starve to death.”

They say to their mothers,“ Where can we find something to eat and drink?” They faint like wounded soldiers in the streets of the city. Their lives are slipping away in their mothers’ arms.

Her skirts are dirty. She didn’t think about how things might turn out. Her fall from power amazed everyone. And no one was there to comfort her. She said,“ Lord, please pay attention to how much I’m suffering. My enemies have won the battle over me.”

“ I called out to those who were going to help me. But they turned against me. My priests and elders died in the city. They were searching for food just to stay alive.“ Lord, see how upset I am! I am suffering deep down inside. My heart is troubled. Again and again I have refused to obey you. Outside the city, people are being killed by swords. Inside, there is nothing but death.

I will shoot at you with my deadly, destroying arrows of hunger. I will shoot to kill. I will bring more and more hunger on you. I will cut off your food supply.I will send hunger and wild animals against you. They will destroy all your children. Plague and murder will sweep over you. And I will send swords to kill you. I have spoken. I am the Lord.”

“ All right,” he said.“ I will let you bake your bread over waste from cows. You can use that instead of human waste.”He continued,“ Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will be worried as they eat their tiny share of food. They will not have any hope as they drink their tiny share of water.There will be very little food and water. The people will be shocked as they look at one another. They will become weaker and weaker because of their sin.

Jerusalem says,“ Lord, look at me. Think about my condition. Have you ever treated anyone else like this? Should women have to eat their babies? Should they eat the children they’ve taken care of? Should priests and prophets be killed in your own temple?

There wasn’t enough food anywhere in the city. It was surrounded for so long that people had to weigh out two pounds of silver for a donkey’s head. They had to weigh out two ounces of silver for half a pint of seed pods.

They’ll surround all the cities throughout your whole land. They’ll attack those cities until the high, strong walls you trust in fall down. That’s what will happen to the cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you.Your enemies will surround you and attack you. They will make you suffer greatly. So you will eat your own children. You will eat the dead bodies of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.There may be a gentle and caring man among you. But he will treat his own brother badly. He’ll be just as mean to the wife he loves and to any of his children who are still alive.He won’t give to a single one of them any part of the dead bodies of his children that he’s eating. It will be all he has left to eat. That’s how much your enemies will make you suffer when they surround all your cities and attack them.There may be a gentle and caring woman among you. She wouldn’t even touch the ground with her feet without first putting her sandals on. But she will not share anything with the husband she loves. She won’t share with her own children either.She will eat what comes out of her body after she has a baby. Then she’ll even eat her baby. She won’t share it with anyone in her family. In her great hunger she’ll plan to eat it in secret. There won’t be anything else for her to eat because the city she lives in will be surrounded. That’s an example of how much your enemies will make you suffer when they are attacking your cities.

When the babies get thirsty, their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths. When the children beg for bread, no one gives them any.Those who once ate fine food are dying in the streets. Those who wore royal clothes are now lying on piles of trash.My people have been punished more than Sodom was. It was destroyed in a moment. No one offered it a helping hand.Jerusalem’s princes were brighter than snow. They were whiter than milk. Their bodies were redder than rubies. They looked like lapis lazuli.But now they are blacker than coal. No one even recognizes them in the streets. Their skin is wrinkled on their bones. It has become as dry as a stick.Those killed by swords are better off than those who die of hunger. Those who are hungry waste away to nothing. They don’t have any food from the fields.With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.

My eyes always look to the Lord. He alone can set my feet free from the trap.Turn to me and help me. I am lonely and hurting.Take away the troubles of my heart. Set me free from my great pain.Look at how I’m hurting! See how much I suffer! Take away all my sins.Look at how many enemies I have! See how terrible their hatred is for me!

I will make the people of this city eat their sons and daughters. And they will eat one another. They will do this because things will be so bad during the attack. The enemies who want to take their lives will bring all this trouble on them.” ’

David’s men found an Egyptian in a field. They brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat.They gave him part of a cake of pressed figs. They also gave him two raisin cakes. After he ate them, he felt as good as new. That’s because he hadn’t eaten any food for three days and three nights. He hadn’t drunk any water during that time either.

“ I’m not worthy. How can I reply to you? I’m putting my hand over my mouth. I’ll stop talking.