Lamentations 4:9
Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.
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Lamentations 4:9
Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.
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Genesis 18:28
If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.
2 Samuel 21:1
In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
2 Samuel 24:13
So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.
Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Jeremiah 15:2
And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
Jeremiah 15:3
And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.
Ezekiel 4:11
And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
Ezekiel 4:15
Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.
Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
Matthew 24:8
But all these things are the first of the troubles.
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Leviticus 26:29
Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
Luke 23:28
But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.
Luke 23:29
For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
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Numbers 11:1
Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
Numbers 11:33
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.
Numbers 14:37
Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
Numbers 16:32
And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.
Numbers 16:33
So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
Numbers 16:49
Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.
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Judges 15:18
After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
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Isaiah 22:2
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
Jeremiah 14:15
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.
Revelation 6:5
And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.
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Jeremiah 14:1
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
Jeremiah 14:4
Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
Jeremiah 14:5
And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6
And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
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Jeremiah 48:45
Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.
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Lamentations 1:5
Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
Lamentations 4:12
To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
Lamentations 4:14
They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.
Lamentations 4:15
Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.
Lamentations 4:16
The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.
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Lamentations 4:1
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
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Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
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Ezekiel 12:19
And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.
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Hosea 4:10
They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
Micah 6:14
You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.
Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
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