Let us break their bands in two 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 one; seek out his wickedness, until You find none.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.

Even a man, my friend, in whom I trusted, who ate 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? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

And now all its carvings too, they break down with axes and hammers.

You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people?

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

I will not break My covenant, nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips.

My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

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

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses break their thirst.

and wine cheers the heart of man, and oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.

And He called for a famine on the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

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 greatly bless her food; I will satisfy her poor with bread.