Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Ezekiel 5:16
When I send against them the deadly arrows of hunger which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and break your staff of bread.
Isaiah 3:1
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;
Ezekiel 4:10-11
The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight,
Ezekiel 14:13
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it and destroy its source of bread and send famine on it and cut off from it both man and animal,
Psalm 105:16
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He
Ezekiel 12:18-19
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.
Psalm 60:3
You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.
Lamentations 1:11
All her people groan, seeking bread;
They have exchanged their desirable and precious things for food
To restore their lives.
“See, O Lord, and consider
How despised and repulsive I have become!”
Lamentations 4:9-10
Those killed with the sword
Are more fortunate than those killed with hunger;
For the hungry pine and ebb away,
For the lack of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
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And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;
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You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].