Yahweh continues to speak against the false prophetesses in Israel.

## handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread ##

Barley is a grain used to make bread and the word "crumb" is a small amount of bread. Both phrases are small amounts of food and are used to emphasize how small the payment was to the prophetesses. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])