“And on the ninth day of the fourth moneth, the famine preuailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
25:3 The people - For the common people, but only for the great men. Now they eat their own children for want of food, #Lam 4:3|, &c. Jeremiah in this extremity, earnestly persuaded the king to surrender; but his heart was hardened to his destruction.