Ruth 1:1 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

¹⁰ And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

¹ And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.

¹ In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.

²³ Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron. ²⁴ The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.

³⁸ Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

¹⁶ And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them, ¹⁷ Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary. ¹⁸ And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of the oppressors.

⁸ After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:

⁸ Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem, and desired to sojourn wheresoever he should find it convenient for him. And when he was come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and had turned aside a little into the house of Michas,

¹ There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda: ² And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites.

¹ And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth. ² And the word of the Lord came to him, saying: ³ Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan; ⁴ And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵ So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent. ⁷ But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not rained upon the earth. ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying: ⁹ Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. ¹⁰ He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. ¹¹ And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. ¹² And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.

² And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

¹ And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years. ² And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

¹⁶ And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

³⁴ A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

¹ The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought.

¹³ Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

²¹ For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

¹⁰ The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished. ¹¹ The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.

¹⁶ Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ¹⁷ The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded. ¹⁸ Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished. ¹⁹ To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country. ²⁰ Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness.

⁶ Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.