Bible Verses About Famine: Often severe
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Verses on Often severe
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.