Ezekiel 5:16
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16 when I loose against you[a] my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.[b](A)
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Ezekiel 4:16
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16 Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread[a] in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.(A)
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- 4.16 Heb staff of bread
Deuteronomy 32:23-24
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23 I will heap disasters upon them,
spend my arrows against them:(A)
24 wasting hunger,
burning consumption,
bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
with venom of things crawling in the dust.(B)
Ezekiel 14:13
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13 Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread[a] and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,(A)
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Lamentations 3:12
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12 he bent his bow and set me
as a mark for his arrow.(A)
Isaiah 3:1
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3 For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and staff—
all support of bread
and all support of water—(A)
Psalm 91:5-7
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5 You will not fear the terror of the night
or the arrow that flies by day(A)
6 or the pestilence that stalks in darkness
or the destruction that wastes at noonday.(B)
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
Psalm 7:13
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13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.(A)
2 Kings 6:25
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25 As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
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Leviticus 26:26
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26 When I cut off your supply of bread,[a] ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.(A)
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