Jeremiah 38:9

Modern English Version

“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 cistern. And he will die by hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Cross References

Job 31:34

did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

Jeremiah 19:9

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone will eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their lives will distress them.

Jeremiah 37:21

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison and give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was finished. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 38:10

Then the king commanded Ebed-melek the Cushite, saying, “Take thirty men with you from here and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melek went forth out of the king’s house and spoke to the king, saying,

Jeremiah 39:17

But I will deliver you in that day, says the Lord, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

Jeremiah 52:6

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to restore their strength. Look, O  Lord, and consider, for I am despised.

Lamentations 3:53

They cut off my life in the pit and cast stones on me.