Isaiah 3:1
See, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah 1 support and staff: the whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water, 1
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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.
Isaiah 1:24Therefore this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: 1 “Woe to them! I will take vengeance against my adversaries, and avenge myself against my enemies; 1
Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of understanding; 1 their honored leaders go hungry, and their common people have nothing to drink. 1
Isaiah 51:22Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this, 1 “See, I have taken the cup of staggering from your hand— 1 the bowl, which is the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again. 1
Jeremiah 38:9“My master the king, these men have done evil with the way they have treated Jeremiah the prophet. They threw him into a cistern for him to die in it from hunger, since there is no more food in the city.”
Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a sin so that I reach out with my hand against it and break the staff of its bread, and send out over it a famine and cut off both man and beast from the land;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:1
The prophet, in this chapter, goes on to foretel the desolations that were coming upon Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, both that by the Babylonians and that which completed their ruin by the Romans, with some of the grounds of God's controversy with them. God threatens, I. To deprive them of all the supports both of their life and of their government, ver. 1-3 . II. To leave them to fall into confusion and disorder, ver. 4, 5 , 12 . III. To deny them the blessing of magistracy, ver. 6-8 . IV. To strip the… Read the whole commentary →