Ezekiel 4:16

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Then he said to me, Mortal, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

2 Kings 6:25

As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned famine against the land, and broke every staff of bread,

Psalm 60:3

You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Isaiah 3:1

For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff— all support of bread, and all support of water—

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 14:13

Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it human beings and animals,

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

Ezekiel 5:16

when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Amos 4:8

so two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Revelation 6:5

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,