Quotes about Famine
I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,
- Jeremiah 44:13
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
- Jeremiah 44:27
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
- Jeremiah 52:6
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- Lamentations 4:9
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 4:17
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 5:12
When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- Ezekiel 5:16
He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
- Ezekiel 6:12
The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
- Ezekiel 7:15
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 14:13
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
- Ezekiel 14:21
And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
- Ezekiel 34:29