◄ Jeremiah 52:6 ►
Parallel Verses
New International Version
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

English Standard Version
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

New American Standard Bible
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

King James Bible
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
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.

International Standard Version
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe that there was no food for the people of the land.

American Standard Version
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

Darby Bible Translation
In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Young's Literal Translation
In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,

Cross References
2 Kings 25:3
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:9
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 like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Jeremiah 39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Ezekiel 5:16
When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:

Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

Ezekiel 31:1
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Commentaries
Matthew Henry's Commentary
52:1-11 This fruit of sin we should pray against above any thing; Cast me not away from thy presence, Ps 51:11. None are cast out of God's presence but those who by sin have first thrown themselves out. Zedekiah's flight was in vain, for there is no escaping the judgments of God; they come upon the sinner, and overtake him, let him flee where he will.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. forts—rather, towers of wood [Kimchi], for watching the movements of the besieged from the height and annoying them with missiles.
Jeremiah 52:5
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