When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.
Genesis 41:30 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then there will come seven years of hunger and famine, and [there will be so much want that] all the great abundance of the previous years will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and hunger (destitution, starvation) will exhaust (consume, finish) the land. American Standard Version (1901) and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; Common English Bible After them, seven years of famine will appear, and all of the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land. Catholic Public Domain Version After this, there will follow another seven years, of such great barrenness that all the former abundance will be delivered into oblivion. For the famine will consume all the land, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version After which shall follow other seven years of so great scacity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten. For the famine shall consume all the land, |
When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.
The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless ears of corn scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.
The abundance in the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows it, for the famine will be very severe.
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh and said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.’
and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
Now the famine had spread across the whole region, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
But there was no food in the entire region, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted by the famine.
So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, ‘Do you want three years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes for three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land for three days? Now, consider carefully what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.’
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, , said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord God of Israel lives, in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ’
Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, ‘Get ready, you and your household, and go and live as a resident foreigner wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.’
Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty and remember his trouble no more.
Whoever asks for a blessing in the land will ask for a blessing by the God of truth, and whoever swears in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my sight.
But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.