When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

"You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!"

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet. He said to his attendant, "Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets."

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey's head [sold for] 80 silver [ shekels], and a cup of dove's dung [sold for] five silver [shekels].

He answered, "If the LORD doesn't help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?"

So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, 'Give up your son, and we will eat him,' but she has hidden her son."

Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Get ready, you and your household, and go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has announced a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land."

"Therefore, I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent behavior.

Two or three cities staggered to another city to drink water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me-- the LORD's declaration.

I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me-- the LORD's declaration.

At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the LORD.

The people did not turn to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

LORD, Your hand is lifted up [to take action], but they do not see it. They will see [Your] zeal for [Your] people, and they will be put to shame. The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!

LORD, don't Your eyes [look for] faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.

Why have these people turned away? Why is Jerusalem always turning away? They take hold of deceit; they refuse to return.

Even the stork in the sky knows her seasons. The turtledove, swallow, and crane are aware of their migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

I will depart and return to My place until they recognize their guilt and seek My face; they will search for Me in their distress.

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn [us], and He will heal us; He has wounded [us], and He will bind up our wounds.

They do not cry to Me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves for grain and wine; they turn away from Me.

They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of the cursing of their tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.

Even now-- [this is] the LORD's declaration-- turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, [so you can] offer grain and wine to the LORD your God.

I struck you-- all the work of your hands-- with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn't turn to Me"-- the LORD's declaration.

So tell the people: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Return to Me"-- [this is] the declaration of the LORD of Hosts-- "and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.

"Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.

And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues from pain

and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.