Starving

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!