Leviticus 26:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:25

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

Psalm 105:16

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

Isaiah 3:1

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

Isaiah 5:10

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

Isaiah 9:19

The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

Isaiah 9:20

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Ezekiel 4:10

And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Ezekiel 4:17

So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

Hosea 4:10

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:27

And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,

Micah 6:14

You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

Haggai 1:6

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.