Jeremiah 38:9
My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah 52:6
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.
Esther 7:4-6
for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.
Job 31:34
Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...
Proverbs 24:11-12
Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
Jeremiah 37:21-6
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard, and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. And Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard.