rsv 2Kings:6:25-29
rsv@2Kings:6:25 @ And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
rsv@2Kings:6:26 @ Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
rsv@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
rsv@2Kings:6:28 @ And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
rsv@2Kings:6:29 @ So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."