There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’
Psalm 107:39 - English Standard Version 2016 When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow, 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Again, they are minished and brought low Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, American Standard Version (1901) Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. Common English Bible But when they do diminish— when they’re brought down by oppression, trouble, and grief— |
There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’
In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.