Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 And the city will go into siege till the eleventh year to king Zedekiah. 6 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. 7 And the city will be broken up, and all the men of war will flee and will go forth from the city by night, the way of the gate between the walls, which was by the king's garden; (and the Chaldeans upon the city round about:) and they will go the way of the sterile region.


Cross References

Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord Jehovah of armies taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay, and the stay, all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water.

2 Kings 25:3

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.

Jeremiah 38:9

My lord the king, these men did evil all which they did to Jeremiah the prophet whom they cast into the pit; and he will die in his low place from the face of hunger, for no more bread in the city.

Jeremiah 39:2

In the eleventh year to Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth to the month, the city was broken.

Leviticus 26:26

In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:52-53

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Deuteronomy 32:24

Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust

Jeremiah 15:2

And it was if they shall say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? And say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Whom for death to death; and whom for the sword to the sword; and whom for famine to famine; and whom for captivity to captivity.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I caused them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his neighbor shall they eat in the straitness and in the distress which their enemies, and they seeking their souls, shall press upon them.

Jeremiah 21:9

He dwelling in this city shall die. by the sword, and by the famine, and by death: and he going forth and falling to the Chaldeans pressing upon you, shall live, and his soul was to him for booty.

Jeremiah 25:10

And I destroyed from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of the two millstones and the light of the lamp.

Lamentations 4:4-6

The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it

Ezekiel 5:10-12

For this the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I did judgments in thee, and I scattered all thy remnant to every wind.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword without, and the death and the famine from within: who is in the field shall die by the sword; and who is in the city, the famine and death shall consume him.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Also if I sent my four evil judgments, sword and famine, and the evil beast, and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and cattle?

Zechariah 8:19

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, 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 for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.

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