²⁵ And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

²⁶ And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

²⁷ And he said, “If the Lord do not help thee, from whence shall I help thee? Out of the barn floor or out of the wine press?”