Psalm 105:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:54

the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had said. Although there was famine in all the other countries, food was available throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:13

Since there was no food in all the land because of the extreme severity of the famine, and the lands of Egypt and Canaan were languishing from hunger,

Genesis 47:19

Why should we and our land perish before your very eyes? Take us and our land in exchange for food, and we will become Pharaoh’s slaves and our land his property; only give us seed, that we may survive and not perish, and that our land may not turn into a waste.”

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.”

Psalm 104:15

wine to gladden their hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread to sustain the human heart.

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:

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.

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 3:6

Does the ram’s horn sound in a city without the people becoming frightened? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has caused it?

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.

Acts 7:11

Then a famine and great affliction struck all Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food;

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.