6 Bible Verses about Spiritual Famine,

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“When I will send hunger over the land,
Not hunger for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather [a hunger] for hearing the words of the Lord.

“People shall stagger from sea to sea [to the very ends of the earth]
And from the north even to the east;
They will roam here and there to seek the word of the Lord [longing for it as essential for life],
But they will not find it.

Now the boy Samuel was attending to the service of the Lord under the supervision of Eli. The word of the Lord was rare and precious in those days; visions [that is, new revelations of divine truth] were not widespread.

We do not see our symbols;
There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],
Nor does any among us know for how long.

Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are [exiled] among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets no longer find
Vision from the Lord.

He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Kaph.
My soul languishes and grows weak for Your salvation;
I wait for Your word.