When I break to you the staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall give back your bread by weight; and you shall eat, and shall not be satisfied.
And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold! They were laying siege to it until the head of an ass was at eighty silver pieces, and a fourth of a cab of dove’s dung at five silver pieces.
For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, is turning aside from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water;
And he cuts off on the right hand, yet is hungry. And he eats on the left, but they shall not be satisfied; each man shall eat the flesh of his own arm;
I will not hear their cry when they fast; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering I will not be pleased with them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the plague.
Son of man, when a land sins against Me, by doing an unfaithful act, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and I will shatter the staff of bread to it, and I will send famine on it. And I will cut off from it man and beast.
And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety. And they shall drink water by measure, and in horror,
When I shall send the arrows of evil famine among them, which shall be for ruin, for which I will send them to destroy you, even I will add the famine on you and break the staff of bread to you.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and your emptiness shall be in your midst; and you will draw back, but shall not keep safe; and that which you keep safe, I will give to the sword.
You have sown much, and brought in little; you eat, but not to satiety; you drink, but not to be filled; you dress, but there is no warmth to one. And one hiring out himself hires out himself for a bag of holes.