Jer. xxiil, 28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Jer. 11, 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

1 Cor. ix, 9. For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

GRASS.

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.

them away as with a flood; the are as a sleep: in the morni they are like grass which growet up. In the morning it flourishet and groweth up; in the evening is cut down, and withereth.

Psalm xcii, 7. When the wicke spring as the grass, and when the workers of iniquity do for ish; it is that they shall be d stroyed for ever.

Psalm cili, 15. As for man, } days are as grass: as a flower the field, so he flourisheth.

inhabitants were of small pow Isa. xxxvii, 27. Therefore the they were dismayed and c founded: they were as the grass the field, and as the greenber the grass on the housetops, and corn blasted before it be grow up.

Isa. xl, 6- The voice sald. Cr And he said, What shall I All flesh is grass, and all the go liness thereof is as the flowE? the field: The grass withereth! flower fadeth: because the spiri the LORD bloweth upon it: san the people is grass. The gr withereth, the flower fadeth: the word of our God shall stand

ever.

Matth. vi, 30. Wherefore, if G so clothe the grass of the f which to day is, and to morrow

chimney.

about five thousand.

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. iil, 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 lii, 17. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge

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 1xxli, 6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Psalm 1xxil, 16. And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Psalm 10, 5, 6. Thou carriest

much more clothe you, O ye little faith?

1 Pet. 1, 24. For all flesh is

The g

grass, and all the glory of man the flower of grass. withereth, and the flower ther falleth away.

OTHER PRODUCTS OF THE FIELDS. BEANS, LENTILES, ETC. 2 Sam. xvii, 28. Brought be and basons, and earthen vess and wheat, and barley, and f and parched corn, and beans, lentiles, and parched pulse.

BULRUSHES, FLAGS AN

RUSHES.

Exod. ii, 3. And when she c not longer hide him, she took him an ark of bulrushes, daubed it with slime and v pitch, and put the child ther and she laid it in the flags by river's brink.

Isa. Iviii, 5. Is it such a fast! I have chosen? a day for a mar afflict his soul? is it to bow d his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes u him wilt thou call this a fast, an acceptable day to the Lo

Job viii, 11. Can the rush g up without mire? can the flagg without water?

E. 3. And he brought me thither, and, behold, there cas a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Hos. II, 5. For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my dar, mine oll and my drink.

Hoa, 1, 9. Therefore will I retr, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

LENTILES.

XXV, 34. Then Jacob gare bread and pottage of lenand he did eat and drink, 1 rose up, and went his way: LG Esan despised his birthright.

MANDRAKES G XXX, 14. And Reuben went e days of wheat harvest, and and mandrakes in the field, and 2ght them unto his mother Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's andrakes.

Song of Solomon vil, 13. The andrakes give a smell, and at gates are all manner of pleastfruits, new and old, which I Te laid up for thee, O my beLured

thou eat thereof.

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 faileth, there is no green thing. hay is withered away, the grass have gotten, and that which they Therefore the abundance they have laid p, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

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.

calved in the field, and forsook it Jer. xiv, 5, 6. Yea, the hind also 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 1, 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 come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruc

tion, and the famine, and the Sword: by whom shall I comfort

thee?

Jer. xii, 13. They have sown shall not profit: and they shall be wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Ezek. xiv, 13. Son of man, when the land sínneth against me by tresspassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bi ead 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 vill, 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 fail 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 1, 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 eat.

Deut. xxxii, 24. They shall be

1

burnt with hunger and devoured, with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 2 Kings vi, 24, 26-29. And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

2 Kin. vii, 3, 4. And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die

also.

Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

Ps. cv, 16. Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

Lam. 1, 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, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

with tears,my bowels are troubled, Lam. ii, 11, 12. Mine eyes do fail, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

Lam. iv, 3-5. Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no

man breaketh it unto them. T that did feed delicately are de late in the streets: they that w brought up in scarlet embr dunghills.

Lam. iv, 7-10. Her Nazar were purer than snow, they whiter than milk, they were m ruddy in body than rubies, polishing was of sapphire: Th visage is blacker than a coal: t are not known in the streets: skin cleaveth to their bones i withered, it is become like a g They that be slain with the s are better than they that bes with hunger: for these pine a stricken through for cont fruits of the field. The har the pitiful women have so their own children: they their meat in the destruct the daughter of my people.

Lam. v, 10. Our skin was like an oven because of the

rible famine.

Ezek. iv, 16, 17. Moreover said unto me, Son of man. beb I will break the staff of breas Jerusalem: and they shall bread by weight, and with c and they shall drink water measure, and with astonish That they may want breast water, and be astonied one another, and consume away their iniquity.

Ezek. xii, 18, 19. Son of t eat thy bread with quaking drink thy water with tren and with carefulness; And unto the people of the land. T saith the Lord Gop of the inh tants of Jerusalem, and of land of Israel; They shall ea bread with carefulness, and their water with astons that her land may be de from all that is therein. of the violence of all thei dwell therein.

Joel i, 8, 9. Lament like a gin girded with sackcloth husband of her youth. The t cut off from the house of offering and the drink ofer LORD; the priests, the Lord's isters, mourn.

Joel i, 13-16, 19, 20. Come night in sackcloth, ye mi of my God: for the meat o and the drink offering is holden from the house of God.

Sanctify ye a fast, solemn assembly, gather th ders and all the inhalit the land into the house of LORD your God, and cry LORD, Alas for the day a day of the LORD is at ha as a destruction from th mighty shall it come. Is

meat cut off before our eyes
joy and gladness from the
of our God?
O LORD, to

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.

deem thee from death: and in war Job v, 20. In famine he shall refrom the power of the sword.

Psalm xxxill, 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 oil, 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 officers 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 gathered 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 numbering, 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. xlil, 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. Jacob sent not with his brethren; But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. And the

sons of Israel came to buy corn famine was in the land of Canaan. among those that came: for the

Gen. xliii, 1-5. And the famine was sore in the land. And it came the corn which they had brought to pass, when they had eaten up 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 rot go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

in a desert land, and in the was howling wilderness; he led b about, he instructed him, he ke him as the apple of his eye.

Josh. xvii, 17, 18. And Josh saying, Thou art a great peop spake unto the house of Josep even to Ephraim and to Manasse and hast great power: thou sha not have one lot only: Butt and the outgoings of it shall mountain shall be thine; for it i wood, and thou shalt cut it dow thine: for thou shalt drive out t Canaanites, though they have in strong. chariots, and though they

2 Sam. xviii, 8. For the batt was there scattered over the f

of all the country: and the devoured more people that d

than the sword devoured.

Job xxx, 7. Among the bus they brayed; under the ne they were gathered together.

desolate and waste ground. Job xxxviii, 27. To satisfy t

Psalm cxxxii, 6. Lo, we he of it at Ephratah: we found #t the fields of the wood.

lambs feed after their manner, Isaiah v, 17. Then shall 1 the waste places of the fat o shall strangers eat.

Isaiah li, 3. For the LORD s comfort Zion: he will comfort

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 withhold-her waste places; and he will m eth corn, the people shall curse her wilderness like Eden, and i head of him that selleth it. him: but blessing shall be upon the desert like the garden of LORD; joy and gladness shall the voice of melody. found therein, thanksgiving,

Acts xii, 20. And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having 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 wrath.

Deut. xxxii, 10. He found him

Jer. ii, 2. Go and cry in the of Jerusalem, saying, Thus s the LORD; I remember thee, kindness of thy youth, the love thine espousals, when thou est after me in the wilderness. land that was not sown.

Jer. ix, 2. Oh that I had in wilderness a lodging place of w faring men; that I might leave people, and go from them! forth be all adulterers, an assembly

treacherous men.

Jer. xxv, 24. And all the k of Arabia, and all the kings of mingled people that dwell in desert.

Jer. 1, 12. Your mother shall sore confounded; she that b you shall be ashamed: behold hindermost of the nations shali a wilderness, a dry land, an desert.

Ezek. xlvil, 11. But the miry pla thereof and the marishes then shall not be healed; they shall given to salt.

Micah vil, 14. Feed thy pe with thy rod, the flock of t heritage, which dwell solitarily the wood, in the midst of Carm