Famine

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Isaiah 14:30 OT

  The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

• Jeremiah 19:9 OT

  I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’

• Jeremiah 14:15-22 OT

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. The people to whom they prophesy…

• Jeremiah 29:17 OT

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

• Jeremiah 29:19 OT

  because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.

• Lamentations 5:4 OT

  We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

• Lamentations 5:5 OT

  Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

• Lamentations 5:10 OT

  Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

• Ezekiel 4:16 OT

  Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

• Ezekiel 4:17 OT

  that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 5:16 OT

  when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

• Ezekiel 5:17 OT

  I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”

• Ezekiel 14:13 OT

  “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

• Joel 1:15 OT

  Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

• Joel 1:16 OT

  Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

• Amos 4:6-9 OT

  “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I…

• Amos 5:16 OT

  Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

• Amos 5:17 OT

  In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.

• Haggai 1:10 OT

  Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

• Haggai 1:11 OT

  I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

• Matthew 24:7 NT

  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

• Luke 21:11 NT

  There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

• Revelation 6:5-8 NT

  When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A…

• Deuteronomy 28:53 OT

  You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.