Psalms 105:16

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

he cut off all the food supply. ¹ 

Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ²  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ³  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 8:3

8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. ⁴  He did this to teach you ⁵  that humankind ⁶  cannot live by bread ⁷  alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth. ⁸ 

Isaiah 3:1

A Coming Leadership Crisis

3:1 Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies ⁹ 

is about to remove from Jerusalem ¹⁰  and Judah

every source of security, including ¹¹ 

all the food and water, ¹² 

Ezekiel 4:16

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ¹³  in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹⁵  destructive ¹⁶  arrows of famine, ¹⁷  which I will shoot to destroy you. ¹⁸  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ¹⁹ 

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, ²⁰  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

[105:16]  ¹ 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).

[26:26]  ² tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

[26:26]  ³ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “manna which you and your ancestors did not know.” By popular etymology the word “manna” comes from the Hebrew phrase מָן הוּא (man hu’), i.e., “What is it?” (Exod 16:15). The question remains unanswered to this very day. Elsewhere the material is said to be “white like coriander seed” with “a taste like honey cakes” (Exod 16:31; cf. Num 11:7). Modern attempts to associate it with various desert plants are unsuccessful for the text says it was a new thing and, furthermore, one that appeared and disappeared miraculously (Exod 16:21-27).

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “in order to make known to you.” In the Hebrew text this statement is subordinated to what precedes, resulting in a very long sentence in English. The translation makes this statement a separate sentence for stylistic reasons.

[8:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “the man,” but in a generic sense, referring to the whole human race (“mankind” or “humankind”).

[8:3]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. CEV).

[8:3]  ⁸ sn Jesus quoted this text to the devil in the midst of his forty-day fast to make the point that spiritual nourishment is incomparably more important than mere physical bread (Matt 4:4; cf. Luke 4:4).

[3:1]  ⁹ 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.

[3:1]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:1]  ¹¹ 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.

[3:1]  ¹² tn Heb “all the support of food, and all the support of water.”

[4:16]  ¹³ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

[4:16]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:16]  ¹⁵ 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).

[5:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

[5:16]  ¹⁷ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

[5:16]  ¹⁸ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

[5:16]  ¹⁹ 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.

[14:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”