Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

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.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

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.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

By July 18 of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the famine in the city had become very severe, with the last of the food entirely gone.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

By the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so bad that there wasn't so much as a crumb of bread for anyone.

SABDAweb Jer 52:6

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.

bibleoremus Jer 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

biblegateway Jer 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

¹ sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

² tn Heb “the people of the land.”