53 Then you will have to eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and your daughters,+ whom Jehovah your God has given you, because of the tightness and stress with which your enemy will hem you in.

3 On the ninth+ day of the [fourth] month* the famine+ was severe in the city, and there proved to be no bread+ for the people of the land.

9 “O my lord the king, these men have done bad in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have thrown into the cistern, so that he will die+ where he is because of the famine.+ For there is no bread anymore in the city.”