Psalm 105:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:54

and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 47:13

Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”

Psalm 104:15

and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

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;

Ezekiel 4:16

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.

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 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Haggai 2:17

I smote you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Acts 7:11

Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

Revelation 6:8

And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.