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15 
“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”(A)

16 
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He [a]cut off every source of bread.(B)
17 
He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:16 Lit broke the whole rod of, referring to the fact that bread was stored as ring-shaped loaves on a rod. If the rod was broken, the loaves fell off and were lost or ruined.

15 “Do not touch(A) my anointed ones;
    do my prophets(B) no harm.”

16 He called down famine(C) on the land
    and destroyed all their supplies of food;
17 and he sent a man before them—
    Joseph, sold as a slave.(D)

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