Deuteronomy 28:48

48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he awill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:53-58

53And byou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, cin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54The man who is the most tender and refined among you will dbegrudge food to his brother, to ethe wife he embraces,
Hebrew  the wife of his bosom
and to the last of the children whom he has left,
55so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, gin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 hThe most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,
Hebrew  the husband of her bosom
to her son and to her daughter,
57her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, jin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, kthe Lord your God,

2 Kings 6:25-29

25And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab
A  shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a  kab was about 1 quart or 1 liter
of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
26Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 mSo we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”

Lamentations 4:4-5

4 The tongue of the nursing infant nsticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
othe children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
pthose who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.

Lamentations 4:9-10

9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 qThe hands of rcompassionate women
shave boiled their own children;
tthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 5:9

9 uWe get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.

Matthew 24:7-8

7For vnation will rise against nation, and wkingdom against kingdom, and there will be xfamines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are but the beginning of ythe birth pains.

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