And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Ver. 3. The famine prevailed in the city.] Insomuch as that the fathers did eat their sons, and the sons their fathers. Eze 5:10 Lam 4:10 The pestilence also prevailed at the same time. Jeremiah 21:6,7 ; Jer 24:10