9 “O my lord the king, what these men have done to Jeremiah the prophet is evil! They have thrown him into the cistern, and he will die there because of the famine, for there is no bread left in the city.”+

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

12 They keep asking their mothers, “Where are grain and wine?”+

 4 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to its palate because of thirst.

Children beg for bread,+ but no one gives them any.+