Psalm 105:16
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New International Version (©2011)
He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;

New Living Translation (©2007)
He called for a famine on the land of Canaan, cutting off its food supply.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He declared a famine on the land; destroying the entire food supply.

NET Bible (©2006)
He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And he called a famine upon the land and he broke all the stalks of their grain.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He brought famine to the land. He took away their food supply.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke every staff of bread.

American King James Version
Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

American Standard Version
And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

Darby Bible Translation
And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

English Revised Version
And he called for a famine upon the land; he brake the whole staff of bread.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

World English Bible
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

Young's Literal Translation
And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land,.... On the land of Egypt; or rather on the land of Canaan, where Jacob and his sons sojourned; and which reached to all lands, Genesis 41:56 and calling for it, it came, being a servant at the command of the Lord; see 2 Kings 8:1.

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

"To call up a famine" is also a prose expression in 2 Kings 8:1. To break the staff of bread (i.e., the staff which bread is to man) is a very old metaphor, Leviticus 26:26. That the selling of Joseph was, providentially regarded, a "sending before," he himself says in Genesis 45:5. Psalm 102:24 throws light upon the meaning of ענּה ב. The Kerמ רגלו is just as much without any occasion to justify it as עינו in Ecclesiastes 4:8 (for עיניו). The statement that iron came upon his soul is intended to say that he had to endure in iron fetters sufferings that threatened his life. Most expositors take בּרזל as equivalent to בּבּרזל, but Hitzig rightly takes נפשׁו as an object, following the Targum; for ברזל as a name of an iron fetter

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moreover, 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 which pertained to their residence in Egypt, and to the dealings of God with the nation when there, as furnishing an occasion for gratitude. Genesis 41; 42.

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Geneva Study Bible

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole {k} staff of bread.

(k) Either by sending scarcity or the strength and nourishment of it.

Wesley's Notes

105:16 Staff of bread - Bread, which is the staff or support of our lives.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. 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).

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Psalm 105:16 Parallel Commentaries
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…15Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm. 16Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread. 17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: …

Genesis 41:30 but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.
Genesis 41:54 and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
2 Kings 8:1 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."
Isaiah 3:1 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,
Ezekiel 4:16 He then said to me: "Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,