Ezekiel 5:16
In 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.
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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 6:25And there came to be, a great famine, in Samaria, and lo! they continued the siege against it,—until an ass’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one pint of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
Psalms 91:5Thou shalt not be afraid, Of the dread of the night, Of the arrow that flieth by day;
Lamentations 3:12He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.
Ezekiel 14:13Son of man, When a land, shall sin against me by committing treachery, and I shall stretch out my hand against it, And break for it the staff of bread, And send thereon famine, And cut off therefrom man and beast,
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 5:6-17
The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 594.) 5 Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round… Read the whole commentary →