²⁵ And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.

²⁵ As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

²⁵ There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels[1] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[2] of seed pods[3] for five shekels.[4]