Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread 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 Version

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.

Holman 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 resulting famine had become so severe in the city that no food remained for the people who lived in the land.

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine [caused by the siege] was severe in the city; there was no food for the people of the land.

Bible in Basic English

Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

Darby Translation

On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

King James 2000

And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

Modern King James verseion

on the ninth of the fourth month, when famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, there was so great hunger in the city, that there was no sustenance for the people of the land.

NET Bible

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city, - and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And on the ninth
תּשׁעה תּשׁע 
Tesha` 
Usage: 58

day of the fourth month
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

the famine
רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

in the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and there was no bread
לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

for the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

References

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

The Final Invasion Of Nebuchadnezzar

2 And the city will go into siege till the eleventh year to king Zedekiah. 3 In the ninth to the month and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city will be broken up, and all the men of war by night the way of the gate between the walls by the king's garden: (and the Chaldees against the city round about;) and he will go the way of the sterile region.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:52-53

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Jeremiah 37:21

And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:2

Thus said Jehovah, He dwelling in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by death; and he going forth to the Chaldeans shall live; and his soul was to him for booty, and he lived.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year to Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, the city was broken.

Jeremiah 52:6

In the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, and the famine will be strong in the city, and there was not bread for the people of the land.

Lamentations 4:4-10

The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it

Ezekiel 5:10

For this the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I did judgments in thee, and I scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of thee in death shall die, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third shall fall by the sword round about thee; and the third I will scatter to every wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword without, and the death and the famine from within: who is in the field shall die by the sword; and who is in the city, the famine and death shall consume him.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Also if I sent my four evil judgments, sword and famine, and the evil beast, and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and cattle?

Zechariah 8:19

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.

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