Jeremiah 38:9
"Your royal Majesty, those men have been very wicked in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have thrown him into a cistern and he is sure to die of starvation there because there is no food left in the city.
Jeremiah 52:6
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
Esther 7:4-6
For we have been sold -- both I and my people -- to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king."
Job 31:34
because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors --
Proverbs 24:11-12
Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.
Jeremiah 37:21-6
Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread be given to him every day from the baker's street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept in the courtyard of the guardhouse.