¹⁶ When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

²³ I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

²⁴ They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

¹⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

²⁵ And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

¹³ He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

⁵ You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

⁶ Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

⁷ You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

¹ For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

¹² With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

¹³ Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it: