Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Famine » Caused » Blackness of the skin
They appear darker than soot; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered and has become as dry as a stick.
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
War » Often attended by » Famine
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I did not send them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land:' 'By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.'
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?