Ezekiel 4:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will 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 was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Psalm 105:16

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

Psalm 60:3

Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Isaiah 3:1

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was 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 behold, for I am despised.”

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

“Son of man, 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 man and beast,

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 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 one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Amos 4:8

so two or three cities wandered to one city 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 say, “Come!” And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand;