Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers.

You did break open the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

Behold, he struck the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide meat for his people?

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke every staff of bread.

The people asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.