Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.