Ezekiel 4:16

New Century Version

He also said to me, “Human, I am going to cut off the supply of bread to Jerusalem. They will eat the bread that is measured out to them, and they will worry as they eat. They will drink water that is measured out to them, and they will be in shock as they drink it.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city. There was no food for the people to eat.

2 Kings 6:25

There was a shortage of food in Samaria. It was so bad that a donkey’s head sold for about two pounds of silver, and half of a pint of dove’s dung sold for about two ounces of silver.

Psalm 105:16

God ordered a time of hunger in the land, and he destroyed all the food.

Psalm 60:3

You have given your people trouble. You made us unable to walk straight, like people drunk with wine.

Isaiah 3:1

Understand this: The Lord God All-Powerful will take away everything Judah and Jerusalem need— all the food and water,

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the hunger was terrible in the city; there was no food for the people to eat.

Lamentations 1:11

All of Jerusalem’s people groan, looking for bread. They are trading their precious things for food so they can stay alive. The city says, “Look, Lord, and see. I am hated.”

Lamentations 5:4

We have to buy the water we drink; we must pay for the firewood.

Lamentations 5:9

We risk our lives to get our food; we face death in the desert.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Human, if the people of a country sin against me by not being loyal, I will use my power against them. I will cut off their supply of food and send a time of hunger, destroying both people and animals.

Ezekiel 4:15

“Very well,” he said. “Then I will give you cow’s dung instead of human dung to use for your fire to bake your bread.”

Ezekiel 5:16

I will send a time of hunger to destroy you, and then I will make your hunger get even worse, and I will cut off your supply of food.

Leviticus 26:26

There will be very little bread to eat; ten women will be able to cook all your bread in one oven. They will measure each piece of bread, and you will eat, but you will still be hungry.

Amos 4:8

People weak from thirst went from town to town for water, but they could not get enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.

Revelation 6:5

When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse, and its rider held a pair of scales in his hand.