Bible Verses About Famine: Often Severe

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.