The famine was sore (see the pathetic descriptions in Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 1:20; Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:12, Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:9, Lamentations 4:10).
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Jeremiah 52:6
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