Ezekiel 12:18

“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:36

As for those who are left of you, I will bring despair (lack of courage, weakness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a scattered leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as if [running] from the sword, and will fall even when no one is chasing them.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Job 3:24


“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.

Psalm 60:2-3


You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.

Psalm 80:5


You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.

Psalm 102:4-9


My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Lamentations 5:9


We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].

Ezekiel 4:16-17

Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],

Ezekiel 23:33


‘You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
With the cup of horror and desolation,
With the cup of your sister Samaria.

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