³⁸ And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few. ³⁹ When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief, ⁴⁰ [he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:32

In those days, Yahweh began to reduce Israel, so Hazael defeated them in every territory of Israel,

Genesis 45:11

And I will provide for you there, because [there are] still five years of famine--lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.'

Exodus 1:13-14

And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites} to work.

Exodus 2:23-24

{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.

Judges 6:3-6

And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of [the] east would come up against them.

Ruth 1:20-21

And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has {caused me to be very bitter}.

1 Samuel 2:5-7

Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but [she who has] many sons withers away.

2 Kings 4:8

It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there [was] a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.

2 Kings 8:3

It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of [the] Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her {properties}.

2 Kings 13:7

For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 13:22

Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Kings 14:26

For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.

2 Chronicles 15:5-6

And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults [were] upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

Job 1:10-17

Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him} {on every side}? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.

Psalm 30:6-7

But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever."

Jeremiah 51:33-34

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor [at the] time it [is] trodden down, {just a little while} and the time of the harvest will come for her."

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