2 Kings 25:3 Cross References - MLV

³ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

²⁶ When I break your* staff of bread, ten women will bake your* bread in one oven and they will deliver your* bread again by weight and you* will eat and not be satisfied.

⁵² And they will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And they will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.
⁵³ And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

²¹ Then Zedekiah the king commanded and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. And they gave him a loaf of bread daily out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

² Jehovah says thus: He who abides in this city will die by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans will live and his life will be to him for a prey and he will live.

² In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

⁶ In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁴ The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread and no man breaks it to them.
⁵ Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. ⁶ For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment and no hands were laid upon her.
⁷ Her ranking men were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was as of sapphire. ⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.
⁹ Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these are a flowing away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁹ Also take to you wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make you bread of it, according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it. ¹⁰ And your food which you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day. You will eat it from time to time. ¹¹ And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. You will drink from time to time.
¹² And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. ¹³ And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
¹⁴ Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. ¹⁵ Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, ¹⁷ that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.

¹⁰ Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in the midst of you and the sons will eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of you.

¹² A third part of you will die with the pestilence and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you and a third part will fall by the sword all around you and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will draw out a sword after them.

¹⁵ The sword is outside and the pestilence and the famine inside. He who is in the field will die with the sword and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence will devour him.

²¹ For thus says the lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword and the famine and the evil beasts and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

¹⁹ Jehovah of hosts says thus: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth, will be to the house of Judah, joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.