Bible Verses About Famine: Sent as a judgment

I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze -

you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit.

"'Yes, if you go against me and don't listen to me, I will increase your calamities sevenfold, according to your sins.

I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted.

"'If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me;

then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins.

I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.

I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

"'And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me;

then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins.

You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.

"The sky over your head will be brass and the earth under you iron.

ADONAI will turn the rain your land needs into powder and dust that will fall on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

"You will carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, because locusts will devour it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them but neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will fall off unripe.

You will father sons and daughters, but they won't belong to you, because they will go into captivity.

The bugs will inherit all your trees and the produce of your land.

He turns rivers into desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground,

productive land into salt flats, because the people living there are so wicked.

For see! The Lord, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, will remove from Yerushalayim and Y'hudah every kind of support all reserves of food and water;

heroes and warriors, judges and prophets, diviners and leaders,

captains of fifty, men of rank and advisers, skillful magicians and expert enchanters.

I will put children in authority; capriciousness will govern them.

People will oppress each other - everyone his friend, everyone his neighbor. The young will be insolent toward their elders, the insignificant arrogant toward the respected.