Amos 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine in Samaria was severe,

2 Kings 4:38

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. Once, when the guild prophets were seated before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some vegetable stew for the guild prophets.”

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha once said to the woman whose son he had restored to life: “Get ready! Leave with your household and live wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a seven-year famine which is coming upon the land.”

2 Chronicles 28:22

While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

Isaiah 26:11

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

Isaiah 3:1

The Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah Support and staff— all support of bread, all support of water:

Isaiah 9:12

The people do not turn back to the one who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 9:13

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! victims of famine. Both prophet and priest ply their trade in a land they do not know.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 16:27

Therefore I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your allotment, and delivered you over to the whim of your enemies, the Philistines, who were revolted by your depraved conduct.

Hosea 11:5

He shall return to the land of Egypt, Assyria shall be his king, because they have refused to repent.

Hosea 5:15

I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.

Joel 1:16

Before our very eyes has not food been cut off? And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

Leviticus 26:23

If, with all this, you still do not accept my discipline and continue hostile to me,

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you, and all the work of your hands, with searing wind, blight, and hail, yet you did not return to me—oracle of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her harlotry.

Ruth 1:1

Once back in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from Bethlehem of Judah left home with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of Moab.