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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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  1. 5.16 Heb them
  2. 5.16 Heb staff of bread

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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  1. 4.16 Heb staff of bread

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)

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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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  1. 14.13 Heb staff of bread

12 he bent his bow and set me
    as a mark for his arrow.(A)

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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)

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You will not fear the terror of the night
    or the arrow that flies by day(A)
or the pestilence that stalks in darkness
    or the destruction that wastes at noonday.(B)

A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you.

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13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.(A)

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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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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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  1. 26.26 Heb staff of bread