³ 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.

⁹ “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is ^(A)no more bread in the city.”

⁶ 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.