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Want to know what the Bible says about Famine? Here are 133 Bible verses about Famine from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Deuteronomy 28:38 NIV
You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
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Deuteronomy 28:42 NIV
Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
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Amos 4:9 NIV
“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.
Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.
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Haggai 2:17 NIV
I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 28:33 NIV
A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
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Deuteronomy 28:51 NIV
They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
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Genesis 41:27 NIV
The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.
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2 Kings 8:1-2 NIV
8 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.” 2 The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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Isaiah 3:1 NIV
See now, the Lord,
    the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
    both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
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Amos 4:6 NIV
“I gave you empty stomachs in every city
    and lack of bread in every town,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.
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