“My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.”(A)

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“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern,(A) where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread(B) in the city.”

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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.

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By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.(A)

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