Lamentations 1:11
All her people groaned as they searched for food. They traded their valuables in order to eat, to keep themselves alive. Look, LORD, and see how I have become dishonored.
Jeremiah 52:6
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe that there was no food for the people of the land.
Jeremiah 38:9
"Your majesty, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern. He will die where he is because of the famine since there is no more bread in the city."
Lamentations 2:12
They ask their mothers, "Is there anything to eat or drink?" They faint in the streets of the city like wounded men. Their life ebbs away while they lie on their mother's bosom.
Deuteronomy 28:52-57
They'll besiege all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted collapse throughout the land. Indeed, they will besiege all your cities, which the LORD your God gave you."
1 Samuel 30:11-12
They found an Egyptian man in the field, and they took him to David. They gave him food to eat and provided water for him.
2 Kings 6:25
until there was a great famine throughout Samaria. The siege lasted until a donkey's head cost 80 silver coins and one quarter of a unit of dove's dung cost five silver coins.
Job 40:4
"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.
Psalm 25:15-19
My eyes look to the LORD continuously, because he's the one who releases my feet from the trap.
Jeremiah 19:9
I'll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and people will eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress to which their enemies and those seeking their lives will subject them."'"
Lamentations 1:9
Uncleanness has soiled her skirts, and she gave no thought to what would follow. She fell in such a startling way, with no one to comfort her. Look, LORD, upon my affliction, because my enemy is boasting.
Lamentations 1:19-20
I called out to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have died within the city while looking for something to eat to keep themselves alive.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, LORD, and take note: To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cuddled? Should priests and prophets be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 4:4-10
The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
Ezekiel 4:15-17
"Okay," he responded. "I'll allow you to substitute cow's dung for human dung. Cook your food over that."
Ezekiel 5:16-17
I'll send arrows of severe famine in their direction, meant for destruction, which I'll shoot, intending to destroy them. I'll make you have more and more famines that will attack you, and I'll disrupt your source of food.