6And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.


In Context

3 For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast t hem out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.

4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about.

5 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.

6 And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

7 And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about, ) sad they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth [day] of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

52:6By 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:6In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath been no bread for the people of the land,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.