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

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By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.

13 (A)Therefore my people have gone into captivity,
Because they have no (B)knowledge;
Their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude dried up with thirst.

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13 Therefore my people will go into exile(A)
    for lack of understanding;(B)
those of high rank(C) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.(D)

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21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah (A)to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers’ street, (B)until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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21 King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread(A) in the city was gone.(B) So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.(C)

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