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and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
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A Devastating Famine
Commentators emphasize the sheer severity of the predicted famine. It would be so "very grievous" that it would completely erase the memory and physical evidence of the preceding seven years of abundance. By the time the famine ended, it would be as if the years of plenty had never happened, demonstrating the scale of the coming crisis.
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