Psa 60:3, Lam 1:11, 4:9-10, 5:9, Eze 4:10-11, 12:18-19 | ESV | STEP | You have made your people see hard things ; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger .

11 All her people ^dgroan
as ^ethey search for bread;
they trade their ^ftreasures for ^gfood
to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
for I am despised.”

Lamentations 4:9-10

9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 ^hThe hands of ⁱcompassionate women
^jhave boiled their own children;
^kthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 5:9

9 ^lWe get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 4:10-11

10 And your food that you eat shall be ^mby weight, ⁿtwenty shekels ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} a day; from day to day ^{▼▼Or at a set time daily; also verse 11} you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink ^qby measure, the sixth part of a hin; ^{▼▼A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters} from day to day you shall drink.

Ezekiel 12:18-19

18 ^s“Son of man, ^teat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety. 19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: ^uThey shall eat their bread with anxiety, ^vand drink water in dismay. In this way ^wher land will be stripped of all it contains, ^xon account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.