Ezekiel 4:16
He also said to me, “Son of man! Behold! I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread while rationing it in anxiety and drink water while rationing it in trembling.
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Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
2 Kings 25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Psalms 105:16He called for a famine on the land; 1 he cut off the whole supply of bread. 1
Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. 1 They have given their precious treasures for food to restore their lives. 1 Look, Yahweh, and consider me, for I have become worthless. 1
Lamentations 5:9We get our bread only by risking our lives, 1 because of the sword in the wilderness. 1
Ezekiel 5:16I will send out harsh arrows of famine against you that will become the means with which I will destroy you. For I will increase the famine on you and break your staff of 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 →