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Famine » Threatened as the result of sin
When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.
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“You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
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The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them—they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”
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A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
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The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared will die of famine. In this way I will exhaust My wrath on them.
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death and grief and famine.
She will be burned up with fire,
because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.
Israel » Prophecies concerning » Dispersion of
and I will shake the house of Israel
among all the nations,
as one shakes a sieve,
but not a pebble will fall to the ground.
There were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.
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because they have not listened to Him;
they will become wanderers among the nations.
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.
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I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. I judged them according to their conduct and actions.
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Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?
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A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
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and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
I will scatter them among the nations that they and their fathers have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
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and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”
As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.
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However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
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Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel—those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.
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Jerusalem » Of pestilence, famine, and war in
A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
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and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.
“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
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I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there because of My people, My inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up My land. They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.