When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your food supply.

Son of man, when a land sins against Me by acting treacherously unfaithfully, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of food, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.

And when I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

For behold, the Lord Jehovah of Hosts takes away the support and the staff from Jerusalem and from Judah; the whole support of bread and the whole support of water;

And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.

And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with horror, so that her land may be emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

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

All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to restore life. See, O Jehovah, and look upon me, for I have become vile.

Better off are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; for they pine away, pierced through for lack of the fruits of the fields.

The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

We bring in our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.