So there was a severe famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 880 grams of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for 55 grams of silver.
Leviticus 26:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When I break your staff of bread and cut off your supply of food, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread and deliver it again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. [Hag. 1:6.] American Standard Version (1901) When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. Common English Bible When I destroy your food supply, ten women will bake bread in a single oven, and they will ration out bread by weight. You will eat but will never get full. Catholic Public Domain Version After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled. |
So there was a severe famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 880 grams of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for 55 grams of silver.
Note this: The Lord God of Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,
For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only 22 litres of wine, and 220 litres of seed will yield only 22 litres of grain.
The land is scorched by the wrath of the Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.
They carve meat on the right, but they are still hungry; they have eaten on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one eats the flesh of his arm.
If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.’
‘Son of man, suppose a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both people and animals from it.
The food you eat each day will weigh 230 grams; you will eat it at set times.
He said to me, ‘Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat food they have weighed out and in dread drink rationed water
for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.
‘And if in spite of this you do not obey me but act with hostility towards me,
You will eat but not be satisfied, for there will be hunger within you. What you acquire, you cannot save, and what you do save, I will give to the sword.
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’