Ezekiel 4:16
And he said unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:
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Leviticus 26:26When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight,—And ye shall eat and not be filled.
2 Kings 25:3On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city,—and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,
Psalms 105:16Then called he a famine over the land, All the staff of bread, he brake;
Lamentations 1:11All her people, are sighing, seeking bread, They have given their precious things for food, to bring back life,—Behold, O Yahweh, and discern, that I have become worthless.
Lamentations 5:9At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
Ezekiel 5:16In that I have sent the malignant arrows of famine among them which were for destruction, which I will send to destroy you,—and famine, will I increase upon you, and will break for you the 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 →