I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’
Psalm 107:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Again, they are minished and brought low Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, American Standard Version (1901) Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. Common English Bible But when they do diminish— when they’re brought down by oppression, trouble, and grief— |
I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’
In those days the Lord began to trim off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
So Jehoahaz was left with an army of not more than fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
For the Lord saw that the distress of Israel was very bitter; there was no one left, bond or free, and no one to help Israel.
One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.
At the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she set out to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.