Luke Chapter 15 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 15:14

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
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BBE Luke 15:14

And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.
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DARBY Luke 15:14

But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.
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KJV Luke 15:14

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
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WBT Luke 15:14


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WEB Luke 15:14

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
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YLT Luke 15:14

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And when he had spent all. True of many a soul in all times, but especially in that age of excessive luxury and splendour and of unbridled passions. "On that hard Roman world, disgustAnd secret loathing fell;Deep weariness and sated lustMade human life a hell."(Matthew Arnold.) There arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. The "mighty famine" may be understood to represent difficult times. Wax or political convulsions, so common in those days, may have speedily brought about the ruin of many like the prodigal of our story, and his comparatively small fortune would quickly have been swallowed up. Selfish evil-living, excesses of various kinds, had gained him no real friends, but had left him to meet the ruin of his fortune with enfeebled powers, homeless and friendless; hence the depth of the degradation in which we speedily find him. Not an unusual figure in the great world-drama, this of the younger son - the man who had sacrificed everything for selfish pleasure, and soon found he had absolutely nothing left but suffering. Very touchingly the greatest, perhaps, of our English poets writes of this awful soul-famine. In his case fortune and rank still remained to him, but everything that can really make life precious and beautiful had been wasted. "My days are in the yellow leaf;The flowers and fruits of love are gone;The worm, the anguish, and the grief,Are mine alone. "The fire that on my bosom preysIs lone as some volcanic isle;No torch is kindled at its blaze -A funeral pile!"(Byron.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) There arose a mighty famine in that land.--This again was no unwonted incident. The famine which "came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar" (Acts 11:28) was more extensive and memorable than others, but it was far from standing alone. And now the pinch came. His treasure was gone, and for the fulness of bread there was hunger and "cleanness of teeth" (Amos 4:6). In the individual interpretation of the parable, the mighty famine is the yearning of the soul's unsatisfied desire, the absence of its true food, of "the bread that cometh down from heaven." (See Notes on John 6:32.) In its wider range it is the craving of humanity for what it cannot find when appetites are not satisfied, and their wonted supply ceases--the famine, not of bread and of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord (Amos 8:11); the want of a message from the Eternal Father to sustain the life of His children.