away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. Jer. xiii, 24. Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. Jer. xxiii, 28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Jer. li, 1, 2. Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. Jer. li, 33. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. Hosea x, 11. And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride. Hosea xiii, 3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Amos i, 3. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. Amos ix, 9. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Micah iv, 12. 13. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth. Hab. iii, 12. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Matt. iii, 12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Luke iii, 17. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge Deut. xi, 15. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. Ps. civ, 14. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth. Ps. cxlvii, 8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. Prov. xxvii, 25. The hay appear eth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. Mark vi, 39. And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. John vi, 10. And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat Cown, in number about five thousand. Rev. ix, 4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Num. xxii, 4. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. 2 Sam. xxiii, 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 2 Kings xix, 26. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. Psalm 1xxii, 6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Psalm xcii, 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. Psalm ciii, 15. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. Isa. xxxvii, 27. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. Isa. xl, 6-8. The voice said, Cry. And he sa'd, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodIiness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Matth. vi, 30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 1 Pet. i, 24. For all flesh is as grass. and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. OTHER PRODUCTS OF BEANS, LENTILES, ETC. and basons, and earthen vessels, 2 Sam. xvii, 28. Brought beds, and arched corn, and beans, and and wheat, and barley, and flour, lentiles, and parched pulse. BULRUSHES, FLAGS AND RUSHES. Exod. ii, 3. And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. Isa. lviii, 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this & fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Psalm 1xxii, 16. And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the Job viii, 11. Can the rush grow earth. up without mire? can the flag grow Psalm xc, 5, 6. Thou carriest without water? RYE. Ex. ix, 32. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up. the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. Isa. vii. 23-25. And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. Isa. xv, 6. 7. For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass have gotten, and that which they faileth, there is no green thing. Therefore the abundance they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. Isa. xvii, 10, 11. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange Matt. xiii, 24-31. (See under slips: In the day shalt thou make Reaping and Harvest.) TARES. FAILURE OF CROPS. OF GRASS. 1 Kings xviii, 5. And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. Jer. xiv, 5, 6. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it because there was no grass. And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. Joel i, 18. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. OF GRAINS. Deut. xxviii, 33, 34. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. Deut. xxviii, 38. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. Isa. iii, 1. For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Isa. li, 19. These two things are for thee? desolation, and destruccome unto thee; who hall be sorry tion, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Jer. xii, 13. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they shall not profit: and they shall be have put themselves to pain, but of the flerce anger of the LORD. ashamed of your revenues because Ezek. xiv, 13. Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by tresspassing 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: Ezek. xxvi, 6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. Hosea vili, 7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Hosea ix, 2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fall in her. Amos v, 16. Therefore the LORD the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Amos viii, 11-14. 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: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth; and. The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. Joel i, 10, 11. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. Joel i, 17. The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. Micah vi, 15. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. Zeph. ii, 11. The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. Rev. vi, 5, 6. 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. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. PRESSURE OF FAMINE. Lev. xxvi, 26-29. And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you, also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye cat. Deut. xxxii, 24. They shall be man breaketh it unto them. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. burnt with hunger and devoured 2 Kin. vii, 3, 4. And there were Ps. cv, 16. Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. Lam. i. 6. And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Lam. i. 11. All her people sigh, with tears,my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, Lam, iv, 3-5. Even the sea Lam. iv, 7-10. Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Lam. v, 10. Our skin was black an oven because of the terrible famine. Exck. iv, 16, 17. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Ezek. xii, 18, 19. Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Gop of the inhabi tants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. gin girded with sackcloth for the Joel i, S, 9. Lament like a virhusband of her youth. The meat cut off from the house of the offering and the drink offering is LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. Joel i, 13-16. 19. 20. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assen.bly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? O LORD, to thee Gen. xli, 28-32. This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 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; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharoah twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Gen. xli, 53-56. And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. And the seven years of death began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, GO unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. Gen. xlvii, 13-20. And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the Acts vii, 11. Now there came a OF THE JUDGES. that there was a famine in the OF DAVID. 2 Sam. xxi, 1. Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. OF AHAB. 1 Kings xvii, 1. And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Alab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. OF ELISHA. 2 Kings iv, 38. And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. DURING SIEGE OF SAMARIA, 2 Kings vi, 25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. OF SEVEN YEARS, FORE TOLD BY ELISHA. 2 Kings viii, 1. Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. Jer. xiv, 1. The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. DURING SIEGE OF JERU- 2 Kings xxv, 3. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. AFTER THE CAPTIVITY. Neh. v, 3. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. IN THE REIGN OF CLAUDIUS CÆSAR. Acts xi, 28. 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 Cæsar. GOD'S CARE OF HIS PEO- the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. Job v, 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. Psalm xxxiii, 18, 19. Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalm xxxvii, 19. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. Ezek. xxxvi, 29, 30. 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. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Joel ii, 19. Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oll, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen. MEANS AGAINST FAMINE. Gen. xli, 34-37. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint oflicers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. Gen.xli 48.49.57. And he gather ed up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left num bering, for it was without number And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. Gen. xlii. 1-5. Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And | he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Gen. xliii, 1-5. And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. Gen. xliv, 25, 26. And our father said, Go again and buy us a little food. And we said. We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. Prov. xi, 26. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse head of him that selleth it. him: but blessing shall be upon the Acts xii, 20. And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, haying made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country. UNRECLAIMED LAND. Gen. iv, 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. Num. xiv, 2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! Deut. xxix, 23. And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrathi. Deut. xxxii, 10. He found him | in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Josh. xvii, 17, 18. And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manassch, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt mountain shall be thine; for it is a not have one lot only: But the Wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong. 2 Sam. xviii. 8. For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. Job xxx, 7. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. desolate and waste ground. Job xxxviii, 27. To satisfy the Psalm cxxxii, 6. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. Isaiah v, 17. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Isaiah li, 3. For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be the voice of melody. found therein, thanksgiving, and Jer. ii, 2. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying. Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Jer. ix, 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Jer. xxv, 24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert. Jer. 1, 12. Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. Ezek. xlvii,11. But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. Micah vii, 14. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carinel; |