¹⁶ when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

²³ I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:

²⁴ [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

²⁶ When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

²⁵ There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

¹³ He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;

⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.

¹ For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water;

¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

¹³ Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;