God’s Word Translation
Psalms 105:16
16He brought famine to the land. He took away their food supply.
Psalms 105:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
- New International Version (NIV)He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
- English Standard Version (ESV)When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.
Context of Psalms 105:16
14He didn’t permit anyone to oppress them. He warned kings about them: 15“Do not touch my anointed ones or harm my prophets.” He brought famine to the land. He took away their food supply. 17He sent a man ahead of them. He sent Joseph, who was sold as a slave. 18They hurt his feet with shackles, and cut into his neck with an iron collar.
Read all of Psalms 105Psalms 105:16 word by word
וַיִּקְרָ֣א רָ֭עָב עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ כָּֽל־מַטֵּה־לֶ֥חֶם שָׁבָֽר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 105:16
- Genesis 41:25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh had the same dream twice. God has told Pharaoh what he’s going to do.
- Genesis 42:5Israel’s sons left with the others who were going to buy grain, because there was also famine in Canaan.
- 2 Kings 8:1Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Go away with your family. Stay wherever you can. The Lord has decided to send a famine on this country, and it will last seven years.”
- Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds an alarm in a city, won’t the people be alarmed? If there is a disaster in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
- Amos 7:1This is what the Almighty Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts when the second crop was being harvested. It was the harvest that followed the harvest for the king.
- Haggai 1:10It is because of you that the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.
- Haggai 2:17I infested all your work with blight and mildew and struck it with hail. But you didn’t come back to me, declares the Lord.
- Matthew 8:8The officer responded, “Sir, I don’t deserve to have you come into my house. But just give a command, and my servant will be healed.
- Revelation 6:8I looked, and there was a pale horse, and its rider’s name was Death. Hell followed him. They were given power over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals on the earth.
- Psalms 104:15You make wine to cheer human hearts, olive oil to make faces shine, and bread to strengthen human hearts.
- Genesis 47:13The famine was so severe that there was no food anywhere. Neither Egypt nor Canaan were producing crops because of the famine.
- Leviticus 26:26I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
- Isaiah 3:1See now, the Lord, the Lord of Armies, is going to take from Jerusalem and Judah every kind of support and their entire supply of food and water.
- Ezekiel 4:16He also said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the bread supply in Jerusalem. People will anxiously eat rationed bread and fearfully drink rationed water.
- Acts 7:11Then a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan brought a lot of suffering. Our ancestors couldn’t find any food.
Commentaries on Psalms 105:16
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land - It was not by chance; not by the mere operation of physical laws, but it was because God “ordered” it. The famine here referred to, as the connection shows, was that which occurred in the time of Jacob, and which was the occasion of the migration into Egypt. There was also a famine in the time of Abraham Genesis 12:10; but the design of the psalmist here is to refer to that period of the Jewish history…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-23Verses 8-23 Let us remember the Redeemer's marvellous works, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. Though true Christians are few number, strangers and pilgrims upon earth, yet a far better inheritance than Canaan is made sure to them by the covenant of God; and if we have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, none can do us any harm. Afflictions are among our mercies. They prove our faith and love, they humble our pride, they wean us from the world…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-22These verses tell the story of Joseph (see Genesis 37–41).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. God ordered the famine. God called for a famine--as if it were a servant, ready to come at God's bidding. Compare the centurion's words, as to disease being God's servant (Mt 8:8, 9). upon the land--namely, Canaan (Ge 41:54). staff of bread--what supports life (Le 26:26; Psa 104:15; Is 3:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 105
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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