²⁰ Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth, and at home there is death alike.

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.