Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

¹³ “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its ^(A)supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.

¹⁶ Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the ^(A)supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall ^(B)eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall ^(C)drink water by measure and with dread, ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and ^(D)waste away because of their iniquity.

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.”

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.

¹² But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”