By the ninth day of the (A)fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

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By the ninth day of the fourth[a] month the famine(A) in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:3 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Jer. 52:6); Masoretic Text does not have fourth.

26 (A)Her gates shall lament and mourn,
And she being desolate (B)shall sit on the ground.

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26 The gates(A) of Zion will lament and mourn;(B)
    destitute,(C) she will sit on the ground.(D)

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