For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease became severe: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

For I feared you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you laid not down, and reap what you did not sow.

And he said unto him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow:

And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was severe in the land.

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain; because that the famine was so severe in all lands.

And the famine was severe in the land.

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

And there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Then the LORD will make your plagues abundant, and the plagues of your descendants, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, of long continuance.

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.