21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

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Leviticus 25:20

And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

Lamentations 2:12

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.

Job 15:23

He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

Job 24:5

Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

Psalm 59:15

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to revive their soul. See, Jehovah, and consider, for I am become vile.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.

Lamentations 5:9

We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought them food to revive their soul.

Genesis 39:6

And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him, save the bread that he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful form and of a beautiful countenance.

Nehemiah 5:2

And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore behold, I will give thee to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.

Matthew 15:33

And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in the wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

Luke 9:12

But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and into the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.

Luke 16:21

and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

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