⁹ “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern,^(A) where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread^(B) in the city.”

⁶ By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.^(A)