Parallel Verses
- The Message - By the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so bad that there wasn’t so much as a crumb of bread for anyone. Then the Babylonians broke through the city walls. Under cover of the night darkness, the entire Judean army fled through an opening in the wall (it was the gate between the two walls above the King’s Garden). They slipped through the lines of the Babylonians who surrounded the city and headed for the Jordan into the Arabah Valley, but the Babylonians were in full pursuit. They caught up with them in the Plains of Jericho. But by then Zedekiah’s army had deserted and was scattered.
- 新标点和合本 - 四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 四月初九，城里的饥荒非常严重，当地的百姓都没有粮食。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 四月初九，城里的饥荒非常严重，当地的百姓都没有粮食。
- 当代译本 - 那年四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，百姓无粮可吃。
- 圣经新译本 - 四月九日，城里饥荒非常严重，甚至那地的人民都断了粮食。
- 现代标点和合本 - 四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 四月初九日，城里有大饥荒，甚至百姓都没有粮食。
- New International Version - 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.
- New International Reader's Version - 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.
- English Standard Version - 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.
- New Living Translation - 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.
- Christian Standard Bible - By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.
- New American Standard Bible - 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.
- New King James Version - 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.
- Amplified Bible - In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
- American Standard Version - In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- King James Version - And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- New English Translation - By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
- World English Bible - In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
- 新標點和合本 - 四月初九日，城裏有大饑荒，甚至百姓都沒有糧食。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 四月初九，城裏的饑荒非常嚴重，當地的百姓都沒有糧食。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 四月初九，城裏的饑荒非常嚴重，當地的百姓都沒有糧食。
- 當代譯本 - 那年四月九日，城裡饑荒非常嚴重，百姓無糧可吃。
- 聖經新譯本 - 四月九日，城裡饑荒非常嚴重，甚至那地的人民都斷了糧食。
- 呂振中譯本 - 四月九日、城裏大鬧饑荒，甚至當地的人民都沒有糧食。
- 現代標點和合本 - 四月初九日，城裡有大饑荒，甚至百姓都沒有糧食。
- 文理和合譯本 - 四月九日、邑中饑甚、斯土之民絕糧、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 四月九日、邑民糧罄饑甚。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 四月九日、城中之民絕糧、饑甚、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - A los nueve días del mes cuarto, cuando el hambre se agravó en la ciudad y no había más alimento para el pueblo,
- 현대인의 성경 - 그리하여 성 안에 기근이 심하여 그 해 4월 9일에 백성들이 먹을 식량이 다 떨어졌고
- Новый Русский Перевод - К девятому дню четвертого месяца голод в городе усилился, и у народа не осталось пищи.
- Восточный перевод - К девятому дню четвёртого месяца (18 июля 586 г. до н. э.) голод в городе усилился, и у народа не осталось пищи.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - К девятому дню четвёртого месяца (18 июля 586 г. до н. э.) голод в городе усилился, и у народа не осталось пищи.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - К девятому дню четвёртого месяца (18 июля 586 г. до н. э.) голод в городе усилился, и у народа не осталось пищи.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Le neuvième jour du quatrième mois, alors que la famine sévissait durement dans la ville et que la population du pays n’avait plus rien à manger,
- リビングバイブル - 六月二十四日（ユダヤ暦では四月九日）になって、町ではききんがひどくなり、ついに最後の食糧も底をついたので、
- Nova Versão Internacional - Ao chegar o nono dia do quarto mês a fome era tão severa que não havia comida para o povo.
- Hoffnung für alle - Doch schließlich waren alle Vorräte aufgebraucht, und die Einwohner litten unter einer schweren Hungersnot. Am 9. Tag des 4. Monats
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ngày chín tháng tư của năm thứ mười một đời Sê-đê-kia cai trị, nạn đói trong thành ngày càng trầm trọng, thực phẩm không còn.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อถึงวันที่เก้าของเดือนที่สี่ กรุงนี้ก็กันดารอาหารอย่างหนักจนไม่มีอาหารรับประทานเลย
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - วันที่เก้าของเดือนสี่ ทุพภิกขภัยรุนแรงที่สุดเกิดขึ้นในเมือง จนไม่มีอาหารให้แก่ประชาชนของแผ่นดิน
Cross Reference
- Ezekiel 4:9 - “Next I want you to take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, dried millet and spelt, and mix them in a bowl to make a flat bread. This is your food ration for the 390 days you lie on your side. Measure out about half a pound for each day and eat it on schedule. Also measure out your daily ration of about a pint of water and drink it on schedule. Eat the bread as you would a muffin. Bake the muffins out in the open where everyone can see you, using dried human dung for fuel.”
- Ezekiel 4:13 - God said, “This is what the people of Israel are going to do: Among the pagan nations where I will drive them, they will eat foods that are strictly taboo to a holy people.”
- Ezekiel 4:14 - I said, “God, my Master! Never! I’ve never contaminated myself with food like that. Since my youth I’ve never eaten anything forbidden by law, nothing found dead or violated by wild animals. I’ve never taken a single bite of forbidden food.”
- Ezekiel 4:15 - “All right,” he said. “I’ll let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human dung.”
- Ezekiel 4:16 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, I’m going to cut off all food from Jerusalem. The people will live on starvation rations, worrying where the next meal’s coming from, scrounging for the next drink of water. Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see nothing but skin and bones, and shake their heads. This is what sin does.”
- Ezekiel 5:11 - “Therefore, as sure as I am the living God—Decree of God, the Master—because you’ve polluted my Sanctuary with your obscenities and disgusting no-god idols, I’m pulling out. Not an ounce of pity will I show you. A third of your people will die of either disease or hunger inside the city, a third will be killed outside the city, and a third will be thrown to the winds and chased by killers.
- Ezekiel 14:21 - “Now then, that’s the picture,” says God, the Master, “once I’ve sent my four catastrophic judgments on Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, disease—to kill off people and animals alike. But look! Believe it or not, there’ll be survivors. Some of their sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you and their salvation is right in your face, you’ll see for yourself the life they’ve been saved from. You’ll know that this severe judgment I brought on Jerusalem was worth it, that it had to be. Yes, when you see in detail the kind of lives they’ve been living, you’ll feel much better. You’ll see the reason behind all that I’ve done in Jerusalem.” Decree of God, the Master.
- Lamentations 4:4 - Babies have nothing to drink. Their tongues stick to the roofs of their mouths. Little children ask for bread but no one gives them so much as a crust.
- Lamentations 4:5 - People used to the finest cuisine forage for food in the streets. People used to the latest in fashions pick through the trash for something to wear.
- Lamentations 4:6 - The evil guilt of my dear people was worse than the sin of Sodom— The city was destroyed in a flash, and no one around to help.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 - And you’ll end up cannibalizing your own sons and daughters that God, your God, has given you. When the suffering from the siege gets extreme, you’re going to eat your own babies. The most gentle and caring man among you will turn hard, his eye evil, against his own brother, his cherished wife, and even the rest of his children who are still alive, refusing to share with them a scrap of meat from the cannibal child-stew he is eating. He’s lost everything, even his humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns.
- Isaiah 3:1 - The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, is emptying Jerusalem and Judah Of all the basic necessities, plain bread and water to begin with. He’s withdrawing police and protection, judges and courts, pastors and teachers, captains and generals, doctors and nurses, and, yes, even the repairmen and jacks-of-all-trades. He says, “I’ll put little kids in charge of the city. Schoolboys and schoolgirls will order everyone around. People will be at each other’s throats, stabbing one another in the back: Neighbor against neighbor, young against old, the no-account against the well-respected. One brother will grab another and say, ‘You look like you’ve got a head on your shoulders. Do something! Get us out of this mess.’ And he’ll say, ‘Me? Not me! I don’t have a clue. Don’t put me in charge of anything.’