Behold, the days come, says the Lord Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.

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

This poor cat almost died of hunger.

I'm starving. There are some leftovers in the fridge.

I will save you from all your uncleanness and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

I will also save you from all your uncleannesses and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

There I will nourish you for there are yet five years of famine lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have. '

They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he neither shall evil come on us neither shall we see sword nor famine.

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

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.

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

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

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

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

Those who impose these restrictions follow a shared logic they do not wish to see their own populations starve.

The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind they will be seven years of famine.

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

The economic situation, which is still very precarious, with many people living close to starvation, constitutes another key challenge.

It exists, in part, because individuals know that civilized societies will never stand by and watch the elderly starve.

A new agreement was presented to Sioux chiefs and their leading men under a campaign known as sell or starve Sign the paper, or no food for your tribe.

The armed forces operate a parallel economy, with its own mines, farms, and factories, though many soldiers and junior officers still go hungry.

Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons and other members of his family were immured in the Muda, a tower of Pisa, and starved to death in the thirteenth century.

With hunger, famine and starvation prevalent in all corners of the world, notably in Africa, the United Nations task is simply enormous.

Additional restraints on trade are a serious threat to net food importing countries, where governments worry that such measures could lead to starvation.

The old woman reciprocates by revealing her own tragic life, which included having a buttock cut off in order to feed some starving men.

Some species, such as Phyllonycteris aphylla , have low fat reserves, and will starve to death when regularly disturbed and put into a panic state during their resting period.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

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.

U.S. attacks started in mid 1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5,100 people in the atoll Mili to die from hunger by August 1945.

One problem stemmed from the contention that there could be no justification for producing renewable fuels from food sources while people were starving.

Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.

Even if he can vote to choose his rulers, a young man with AIDS who cannot read or write and lives on the brink of starvation is not truly free.

With chocolate and cardamom now allowed into Gaza, Israel is applying a smarter siege, which will keep Palestinians here isolated, poor, and aid dependent, but not starving.

I do wish, with their budget, that they might have spent just a tiny bit more money to pay a consulting fee to some poor, starving graduate student, who could have told them that those are the eyes of a fish that's been preserved in formalin.

For instance, in the year 31, Livilla, the niece and daughter in law of Tiberius, was discreetly starved to death by her mother for her adulterous relationship with Sejanus and for her complicity in the murder of her own husband, Drusus the Younger.

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rate of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool, Sanaag and Togdheer plateaux of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

The combination of bad weather, deficiencies of the hastily established collective farms, and massive confiscation of grain precipitated a serious famine, and several million peasants died of starvation, mostly in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and parts of southwestern Russia.

The Lydda District had one of the largest animal markets in Palestine, alongside that of the Nazareth District however, starvation was a common affliction among the herds in the former in the 20th century, and the herd at Khluda was described as 'a typical specimen of extreme debility'.