Quotes About Famine

Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.í

So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him.í But she had hidden her son.”

If we say, ëLet us go into the city,í we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

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.

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.í Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

ëIf disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.í

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ëThe LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?í

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

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

They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.