And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.

Son of man, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it.

When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole support of bread.

Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

And you shall eat your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat them.

And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth part of a hin.

Son of man, eat your bread with sorrow, and drink [your] water with torment and affliction.

And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains, for all that dwell in it are ungodly.

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of astonishment.

CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she has become dishonored.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger; they have departed, pierced through from lack of the fruits of the field.

JOD. The hands of tender hearted women have boiled their own children; they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.