21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food
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And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase
They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink.
And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?
And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.