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 52:6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, so that 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. If we had been sold for menslaves and womenslaves, I would remain silent, even though the enemy could not recompense the damage to the king.
Job 31:34
if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
Proverbs 24:11-12
If thou forbear to deliver those that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain,
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for those who cannot speak in the judgment of all the sons of death.
Jeremiah 37:21-6
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the guard and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.