Bible Verses About Famine: Sent as a judgment

and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

`And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

`And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

then I have walked--I also--with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.

`In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

`And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

`And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

`And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;

Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land--dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.

`Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;

olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.

`Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;

all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;

He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

And the people hath exacted--man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.