'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 supply of bread.

"Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.

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 destroyed all the provision of bread.

For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply 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 GOD to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [and] to the land of Israel: "They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dread, 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 confusion.

All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life. "See, O LORD, and consider, For I am scorned."

[Those] slain by the sword are better off Than [those] who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken [for lack] of the fruits of the field.

The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

We get our bread [at the risk] of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.