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Jeremiah 52:6

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

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320 →
הָֽרְבִיעִי֙ha.re.vi.'I<the> fourthH7243 →
בְּתִשְׁעָ֣הbe.tish.'Ahon [day] nineH8672 →
לַחֹ֔דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320 →
וַיֶּחֱזַ֥קvai.ye.che.Zakand it was severeH2388 →
הָרָעָ֖בha.ra.'Avthe famineH7458 →
בָּעִ֑ירba.'Irin the cityH5892 →
וְלֹא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
הָיָ֥הha.Yahit belongedH1961 →
לֶ֖חֶםLe.chemfoodH3899 →
לְעַ֥םle.'Amto [the] people ofH5971 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ha.'A.retzthe landH776 →

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Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.Jeremiah 37:21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”2 Kings 25:3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.Jeremiah 21:9Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.Jeremiah 25:10Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’Zechariah 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”Lamentations 4:4–6The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Ezekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?Ezekiel 4:9–17But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.Ezekiel 5:10–12As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.Jeremiah 15:2If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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