Then the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Egypt ended,
But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
As a dream when one awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.
And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.