FAMINE

Passages on this topic · 134

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

• Genesis 41:53

  The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

• Genesis 41:54

  The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:57

  All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

• Leviticus 26:19

  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

• Leviticus 26:20

  Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

• Leviticus 26:21

  “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

• Leviticus 26:22

  I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

• Leviticus 26:23

  “‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

• Leviticus 26:24

  then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:25

  I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

• Leviticus 26:27

  “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

• Leviticus 26:28

  then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:29

  You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

• Deuteronomy 28:23

  Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

• Deuteronomy 28:24

  Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.

• Deuteronomy 28:39

  You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

• Deuteronomy 28:41

  You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go into captivity.

• Deuteronomy 28:42

  Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  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.

• Deuteronomy 28:54

  The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

• Deuteronomy 28:55

  so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• 2 Samuel 18:1

  David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

• 2 Samuel 21:1

  There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

• 2 Kings 6:25

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

• 2 Kings 6:26

  As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

• 2 Kings 6:28

  The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Kings 7:4

  If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 1 Chronicles 21:12

  either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”

• Job 5:20

  In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

• Psalms 33:19

  to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

• Psalms 37:19

  They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

• Psalms 105:16

  He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

• Psalms 107:33

  He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

• Psalms 107:34

  and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

• Isaiah 3:1

  For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

• Isaiah 3:2

  the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

• Isaiah 3:3

  the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

• Isaiah 3:4

  I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

• Isaiah 3:5

  The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

• Isaiah 3:6

  Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.”

• Isaiah 3:7

  In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.”

• Isaiah 3:8

  For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

• Isaiah 5:13

  Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 9:19

  Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

• Isaiah 9:20

  One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

• Isaiah 9:21

  Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Isaiah 14:30

  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.

• Isaiah 17:11

  In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

• Jeremiah 5:17

  They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

• Jeremiah 14:1

  This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  “Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

• Jeremiah 14:3

  Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 14:4

  Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land. The plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 14:5

  Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

• Jeremiah 14:6

  The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

• Jeremiah 14:15

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and 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.

• Jeremiah 14:16

  The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They shall have no one to bury them — them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.

• Jeremiah 14:17

  “You shall say this word to them, “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

• Jeremiah 14:18

  If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”

• Jeremiah 14:19

  Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

• Jeremiah 14:20

  We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

• Jeremiah 14:21

  Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.

• Jeremiah 14:22

  Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

• Jeremiah 19:9

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

• Jeremiah 29:17

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

• Jeremiah 29:19

  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.

• Jeremiah 48:33

  Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

• Jeremiah 52:6

  In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Lamentations 1:11

  All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become abject.”

• Lamentations 1:19

  “I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

• Lamentations 2:12

  They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

• Lamentations 2:13

  What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?

• Lamentations 2:14

  Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

• Lamentations 2:15

  All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

• Lamentations 2:16

  All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

• Lamentations 2:17

  Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

• Lamentations 2:18

  Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of your eye cease.

• Lamentations 2:19

  Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

• Lamentations 2:20

  “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Lamentations 2:21

  “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

• Lamentations 2:22

  “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

• Lamentations 4:4

  The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

• Lamentations 4:5

  Those who fed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

• Lamentations 4:6

  For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.

• Lamentations 4:7

  Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

• Lamentations 4:8

  Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a stick.

• Lamentations 4:9

  Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

• Lamentations 4:10

  The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

• Lamentations 5:4

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

• Lamentations 5:5

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

• Lamentations 5:10

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

• Ezekiel 4:16

  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; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay;

• Ezekiel 4:17

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

• Ezekiel 5:16

  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

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

• Ezekiel 14:13

  “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

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

• Joel 1:16

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

• Joel 1:17

  The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

• Joel 1:18

  How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

• Joel 1:19

  Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

• Joel 1:20

  Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

• Amos 4:6

  “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.

• Amos 4:7

  “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

• Amos 4:8

  So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:9

  “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 5:16

  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

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

• Amos 8:11

  Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.

• Haggai 1:10

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

• Haggai 1:11

  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

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

• Luke 21:11

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

• Acts 11:28

  One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

• Revelation 6:5

  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.

• Revelation 6:6

  I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”

• Revelation 6:7

  When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see!”

• Revelation 6:8

  And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.