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.
Isaiah 8:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their gods. They will turn their faces upward, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they [who consult mediums and wizards] shall pass through [the land] sorely distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will fret, and will curse by their king and their God; and whether they look upward American Standard Version (1901) And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: Common English Bible They will pass through the land, dejected and hungry, and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and God. They will turn toward heaven Catholic Public Domain Version And he will pass by it; he will fall and become hungry. And when he is hungry, he will become angry, and he will speak evil against his king and his God, and he will lift himself upward. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall pass by it; they shall fall, and be hungry. And when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king and their God, and look upwards. |
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.
While he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I hope in the Lord any longer?”
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”
Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God and die.”
In my pastures the poor will graze and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine, and your remnant I will kill.
These two things have befallen you —who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will comfort you?
Therefore justice is far from us, and deliverance does not reach us; we wait for light, but there is only darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
They gorged on the right but still were hungry, and they devoured on the left but were not satisfied; they devoured the flesh of their own kindred;
Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they were against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.
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.
The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—
And on that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”