Bible Verses About Famine
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for famine, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,666 votes, led by Amos 8:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Famine
Amos 8:11172 votes
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:
Luke 21:11112 votes
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Matthew 24:7108 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Genesis 12:1076 votes
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 41:53-5773 votes
And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Psalms 107:3471 votes
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Amos 4:6-964 votes
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Job 5:2062 votes
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
2 Kings 7:458 votes
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.
Ezekiel 14:1354 votes
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:
Psalms 37:1952 votes
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Jeremiah 52:650 votes
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.
Genesis 41:1-5748 votes
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis 26:147 votes
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.
Joel 1:1645 votes
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Psalms 105:1642 votes
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Lamentations 5:1038 votes
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Luke 12:3338 votes
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.
Joel 1:17-2034 votes
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Amos 8:11-1234 votes
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:
Revelation 6:5-834 votes
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Ruth 1:132 votes
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 Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Jeremiah 48:3332 votes
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.
Isaiah 3:1-830 votes
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Jeremiah 19:930 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about famine?
Readers most often cite Amos 8:11 on the subject of famine. Across 2,666 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 21:11, Matthew 24:7, Genesis 12:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.