Leviticus 26:26

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:25

Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of “dove droppings” for five pieces of silver.

Psalm 105:16

Then he called down a famine on the land, destroyed the grain that sustained 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 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Isaiah 9:19

They hack on the right, but remain hungry; they devour on the left, but are not filled. Each devours the flesh of the neighbor;

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 14:12

If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.

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—

Ezekiel 4:10

The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.

Ezekiel 4:17

Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I loose against you the deadly arrows of starvation that I am sending to destroy you, I will increase starvation and will break your staff of bread.

Hosea 4:10

They will eat but not be satisfied, they will promote prostitution but not increase, Because they have abandoned the Lord, devoting themselves

Leviticus 26:27

If, despite all this, you disobey and continue hostile to me,

Micah 6:14

You shall eat, without being satisfied, food that will leave you empty; What you acquire, you cannot save; what you do save, I will deliver up to the sword.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.