25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was at fifty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung at five pieces of silver.
26
And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27
And he said to her, Unless the Lord help thee, whence shall I help thee? from the corn-floor, or from the wine-press?
28
And the king said to her, What is with thee? And the woman said to him, This said to me, Give thy son, and we will eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
29
So we boiled my son, and ate him; and I said to her on the second day, Give thy son, and let us eat him: and she has hidden her son.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.