Parallel Verses

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the 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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was very grievous in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And in the fourth Month, the ninth day of the Month, there was so great hunger in the city that there were no more victuals 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

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And in the fourth
רבעי רביעי 
R@biy`iy 
Usage: 56

חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

in the ninth
תּשׁעה תּשׁע 
Tesha` 
Usage: 58

day of the month
חדשׁ 
Chodesh 
Usage: 279

the famine
רעב 
Ra`ab 
Usage: 101

in the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

for the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

Context Readings

The Fall Of Jerusalem

5 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 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. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water;

2 Kings 25:3

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.

Jeremiah 38:9

"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city."

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:52-53

"They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 32:24

they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.

Jeremiah 15:2

And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.'

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

Jeremiah 21:9

He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Lamentations 4:4-6

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

"And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, days, you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 5:10-12

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

Ezekiel 14:21

"For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Zechariah 8:19

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month 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 seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

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