Lamentations 2:12
English Standard Version
12 They cry to their mothers,
(A)“Where is bread and wine?”
(B)as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations 4:4
English Standard Version
4 The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
Jeremiah 38:9
English Standard Version
9 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of (A)hunger, (B)for there is no bread left in the city.”
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Jeremiah 52:6
English Standard Version
6 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.
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