Isaiah 3:1

New American Bible - revised edition

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:

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,

Psalm 105:16

Then he called down a famine on the land, destroyed the grain that sustained them.

Isaiah 1:24

Now, therefore, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will take vengeance on my foes and fully repay my enemies!

Isaiah 2:22

As for you, stop worrying about mortals, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for of what worth are they?

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched, Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,

Isaiah 36:12

But the commander replied, “Was it to your lord and to you that my lord sent me to speak these words? Was it not rather to those sitting on the wall, who, with you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of understanding, Its nobles starving, its masses parched with thirst.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says the Lord, your Master, your God, who defends his people: See, I am taking from your hand the cup of staggering; The bowl of my wrath you shall no longer drink.

Isaiah 9:20

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, together they turn on Judah. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be confined in the court of the guard and given a ration of bread every day from the bakers’ street until all the bread in the city was eaten up. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord king, these men have done wrong in all their treatment of Jeremiah the prophet, throwing him into the cistern. He will starve to death on the spot, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 52:3

Indeed, the things done in Jerusalem and in Judah so angered the Lord that he cast them out from his presence. Thus Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had gripped the city and the people had no more bread,

Lamentations 5:4

We pay money to drink our own water, our own wood comes at a price.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—

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.

Amos 4:6

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.

Micah 4:9

Now why do you cry out so? Are you without a king? Or has your adviser perished, That you are seized with pains like a woman in labor?