Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹  destructive ²  arrows of famine, ³  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁴  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ⁶  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ⁷  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ⁸  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Psalms 105:16

105:16 He called down a famine upon the earth;

he cut off all the food supply. ⁹ 

Isaiah 3:1

A Coming Leadership Crisis

3:1 Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies ¹⁰ 

is about to remove from Jerusalem ¹¹  and Judah

every source of security, including ¹² 

all the food and water, ¹³ 

¹ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

² tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

³ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

⁴ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

⁵ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

⁶ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”

⁷ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

⁸ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

⁹ tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).

¹⁰ tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at 1:9.

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹² tn Heb “support and support.” The masculine and feminine forms of the noun are placed side-by-side to emphasize completeness. See GKC 394 §122.v.

¹³ tn Heb “all the support of food, and all the support of water.”