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12 They cry to their mothers,
    (A)“Where is bread and wine?”
(B)as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers' bosom.

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12 They say to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”(A)
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(B)
    in their mothers’ arms.(C)

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The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

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Because of thirst(A) the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;(B)
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.(C)

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“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of (A)hunger, (B)for there is no bread left in the city.”

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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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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.

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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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