3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe+ in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.+

21 So King Zed·e·kiʹah ordered that Jeremiah be put in custody in the Courtyard of the Guard,+ and he was given a round loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers+ until all the bread in the city was gone.+ And Jeremiah remained in the Courtyard of the Guard.

11 All her people are sighing; they are looking for bread.+

They have given their valuable things for something to eat, just to stay alive.*

Look, O Jehovah, and see that I have become as a worthless woman.*

 9 We bring in our bread at the risk of our life,*+ because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin has become as hot as a furnace, because of the pangs of hunger.+