Leviticus 26:26
26 aWhen I break your supply ▼▼Hebrew staff
of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and cyou shall eat and not be satisfied. Deuteronomy 28:22-24
22 dThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ▼▼Or sword
and with fblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23And gthe heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed. Deuteronomy 28:38-40
38 hYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ithe locust shall consume it. 39 jYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you kshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.2 Samuel 21:1
David Avenges the Gibeonites
1Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David lsought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”2 Kings 8:1
The Shunammite’s Land Restored
1Now Elisha had said to the woman mwhose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord nhas called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for oseven years.”Jeremiah 14:1-6
Famine, Sword, and Pestilence
1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning pthe drought:2 q“Judah mourns,
and rher gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
and sthe cry of Jerusalem goes up.
3Her nobles send their servants for water;
they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
they return with their vessels empty;
they are tashamed and confounded
and ucover their heads.
4Because of the ground that is dismayed,
since there is vno rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
5Even wthe doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
because there is no grass.
6 xThe wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no vegetation.
Ezekiel 14:13
13 y“Son of man, when a land sins against me zby acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and aabreak its supply ▼▼Hebrew staff
of bread and send famine upon it, and accut off from it man and beast,
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