Translations
A terrible famine gripped Samaria. The siege drove prices to the unthinkable: a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and a small measure of dove's dung sold for five.
And there was a great famine in Shomron. The siege pressed so hard that a donkey's head was sold for eighty silver shekels, and a quarter-kav of dove's dung for five silver shekels.
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.