Jeremiah 38:9

New King James 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 dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is no more bread in the city.”

Cross References

Job 31:34

Because I feared the great multitude, And dreaded the contempt of families, So that I kept silence And did not go out of the door—

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’

Jeremiah 37:21

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

Jeremiah 38:10

Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-Melech went 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

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.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life. “See, O Lord, and consider, For I am scorned.”

Lamentations 3:53

They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.