【Top】69+ Bible Verses About Famine - KJV Scriptures

“In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword”

— Job 5:20

“And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar”

— Genesis 26:1

“And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land”

— Genesis 12:10

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places”

— Matthew 24:7

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God , that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord”

— Amos 8:11

“And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven”

— Luke 21:11

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

— Jeremiah 52:6

“They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied”

— Psalm 37:19

“Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread”

— Psalm 105:16

“And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar”

— Acts 11:28

“Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons”

— Ruth 1:1

“And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan”

— Genesis 42:5

“And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him”

— Genesis 41:50

“And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria”

— 1 Kings 18:2

“They have belied the Lord , and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine”

— Jeremiah 5:12

“So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them”

— Jeremiah 42:17

“If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses”

— Genesis 42:19

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

— Romans 8:35

“And when Saul enquired of the Lord , the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets”

— 1 Samuel 28:6

“For with God nothing shall be impossible”

— Luke 1:37

“And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine”

— Genesis 41:36

“And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth”

— 1 Kings 18:1

“And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more”

— Ezekiel 34:29

“And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant”

— Isaiah 14:30

“Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?”

— 1 Samuel 21:1

“And the famine was sore in the land”

— Genesis 43:1

“Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance”

— Acts 7:11

“Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them”

— Micah 3:6

“Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord . And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites”

— 2 Samuel 21:1

“And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous”

— Genesis 41:31

“Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients”

— Ezekiel 7:26

“These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?”

— Isaiah 51:19

“And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine”

— Genesis 47:13

“Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion”

— 1 Kings 8:1

“And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land”

— 2 Kings 25:3

“And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone”

— Genesis 42:33

“Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord , even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me”

— 1 Chronicles 21:12

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows”

— Mark 13:8

“And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more”

— Amos 8:2

“And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision”

— 1 Samuel 3:1

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John”

— Revelation 1:1

“And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them”

— Jeremiah 19:9

“And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass”

— Leviticus 26:19

“Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil”

— Jeremiah 29:17

“And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land”

— Genesis 41:30

“And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands”

— Genesis 41:57

“At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth”

— Job 5:22

“And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size”

— 1 Kings 6:25

“Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed”

— Jeremiah 14:15

“And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word”

— 1 Kings 17:1

“When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence”

— Jeremiah 14:12

“And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands”

— Haggai 1:11

“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 waxed sore in the land of Egypt”

— Genesis 41:56

“Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth”

— Nehemiah 5:3

“That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten”

— Joel 1:4

“And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty”

— Genesis 45:11

“Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle”

— Jeremiah 18:21

“Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years”

— 2 Kings 8:1

“And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt”

— Exodus 9:23

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth”

— Revelation 6:8

“Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth”

— Luke 12:33

“When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread”

— Ezekiel 5:16

“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine”

— Lamentations 5:10

“Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it”

— Ezekiel 14:13

“If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die”

— 2 Kings 7:4

“Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?”

— Joel 1:16

“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste”

— Job 30:3

“To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine”

— Psalm 33:19

“And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting”

— Jeremiah 48:33

“A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein”

— Psalm 107:34