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Jeremiah 52:6

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.

KJV

Mense autem quarto, nona mensis, obtinuit fames civitatem, et non erant alimenta populo terræ.

Vulgate

ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ τοῦ μηνός, καὶ ἐστερεώθη ὁ λιμὸς ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ οὐκ ἦσαν ἄρτοι τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς.

LXX

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.

ASV

בַּ/חֹ֤דֶשׁ הָֽ/רְבִיעִי֙ בְּ/תִשְׁעָ֣ה לַ/חֹ֔דֶשׁ וַ/יֶּחֱזַ֥ק הָ/רָעָ֖ב בָּ/עִ֑יר וְ/לֹא הָיָ֥ה לֶ֖חֶם לְ/עַ֥ם הָ/אָֽרֶץ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
הֶחֱזִ֗יק
hchzyq
verb · 289×
חֹ֣דֶשׁ
chdsh
noun · 280×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
רְבִיעִ֔י
rby'y
adjective · 55×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
תְּשַׁ֥ע
tsh'
adjective · 58×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silv
  • 2Kgs 25:3 — And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
  • 2Kgs 25:3 — And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
  • Isa 3:1 — For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
  • Jer 14:18 — If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land
  • Jer 37:21 — Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in t
  • Jer 38:9 — My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for ther
  • Jer 39:2 — And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
  • Lam 1:11 — All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
  • Zech 8:19 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, 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 joy and gladness, and chee