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Quotes about Scarcity

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:40
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- Joshua 9:5
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
- Judges 21:14
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- 2 Kings 6:25
When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
- 1 Chronicles 16:19
He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- Psalm 105:16
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Isaiah 5:10
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
- Isaiah 10:19
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12
The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
- Isaiah 21:17
Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
- Isaiah 40:16
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- Jeremiah 14:5