Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:
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Leviticus 26:26When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
2 Kings 25:3And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Psalms 105:16They provoked Moses also in the camp, 1 And Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 1
Lamentations 1:11All her people groan, 1 Seeking bread: 1 They have given their desirable things for meat, 1 To restore their soul: 1 Behold, Lord, and look; 1 For she is become dishonored. 1
Lamentations 5:9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, 1 Because of the sword of the wilderness. 1
Ezekiel 5:16And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of thy bread.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:10-17
The Representation of a Famine. ( b. c. 595.) 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time… Read the whole commentary →