Revelation 6:6 Revelation 6:6 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. In this part of the vision, John heard a Voice say; that is, some edict or proclamation of magistrates or justices, crying, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, though bread corn was dear, yet not so scarce; but that the Roman penny, which was the laboring man’ s day wages, for his days work would buy him so much as would serve and satisfy him for his day’ s food. And see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. So that there was plenty of oil and wine, though some scarcity of wheat and barley. In the midst of judgement God remembered mercy; the oil and wine was spared and preserved. When God gives scarcity of some kind of food for the poor laboring men and women, who have only what they can earn, and are supplied from hand to month yet he usually gives plenty of the other needful things for daily supply.