Siege thirst; famine of hearing the Word
These things they have suffered both being besieged and being led away. And you would also say that “they endured a famine not of bread, not of water” (Lamentations 4:4) according to the prophetic word, “but of hearing a word of the Lord.” (Amos 8:11) For which reason he prophesies of them as newborns.
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 4. Ταῦτα πεΠόνθασι πολιορκούμενοί τε καὶ ἀπαγόμενοι. λέγοις δ ἂν καὶ ὡς >λιμὸν ὑπέμειναν οὐκ ἄρτου, οὐχ ὓδατος< κατὰ τὸ προφητικόν, >ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι λόγον κυρίου<. διὸ νεογνῶν αὐτῶν προφητεύει.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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