Quotes About Scarcity

Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkeyís head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of doveís dung sold for five shekels of silver.

He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”