³ And thou, take to thee an iron pan, and thou hast made it a wall of iron between thee and the city; and thou hast prepared thy face against it, and it hath been in a siege, yea, thou hast laid siege against it. A sign it [is] to the house of Israel.

³ on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,