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Jeremiah 52:6
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
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Jeremiah 38:9
“ My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.”
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Lamentations 2:12
They cry out to their mothers: Where is the grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
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Lamentations 1:9
Her uncleanness stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. Lord, look on my affliction, for the enemy triumphs!
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Lamentations 1:19-20
I called to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while searching for food to keep themselves alive.Lord, see how I am in distress. I am churning within; my heart is broken, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword takes the children; inside, there is death.
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Ezekiel 5:16-17
When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless, Jerusalem. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
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Ezekiel 4:15-17
He replied to me,“ Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”Then He said to me,“ Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
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Lamentations 2:20
Lord, look and consider who You have done this to. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
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2 Kings 6 25
So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.
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Deuteronomy 28:52-57
They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.“ You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
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Lamentations 4:4-10
The nursing infant’s tongue clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were reared in purple garments huddle in garbage heaps.The punishment of my dear people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand laid on it.Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their appearance like sapphire.Now they appear darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become dry like wood.Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
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Psalms 25:15-19
My eyes are always on the Lord, for He will pull my feet out of the net.Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am alone and afflicted.The distresses of my heart increase; bring me out of my sufferings.Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.Consider my enemies; they are numerous, and they hate me violently.
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Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.
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1 Samuel 30 11-1 Samuel 30 12
They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.
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Job 40:4
I am so insignificant. How can I answer You? I place my hand over my mouth.
