21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

Most Relevant Verses

Leviticus 25:20

'And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

Lamentations 2:12

To their mothers they say, 'Where are corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

Job 15:23

He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

Luke 12:22

And he said unto his disciples, 'Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

Job 24:5

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

Psalm 59:15

They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

Lamentations 4:4

Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

Lamentations 5:9

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:6

To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

Genesis 39:6

and he leaveth all that he hath in the hand of Joseph, and he hath not known anything that he hath, except the bread which he is eating. And Joseph is of a fair form, and of a fair appearance.

Nehemiah 5:2

yea, there are who are saying, 'Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

Ezekiel 25:4

Therefore, lo, I am giving thee to sons of the east for a possession, And they set their towers in thee, And have placed in thee their tabernacles. They eat thy fruit, and they drink thy milk,

Matthew 15:33

And his disciples say to him, 'Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?'

Luke 9:12

And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, 'Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.'

Luke 16:21

and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Bible Theasaurus

Never miss a post