Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Famine » Caused » Blackness of the skin
Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
War » Often attended by » Famine
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?