‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

With the east wind
You break the ships of Tarshish.

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide meat for His people?”

Man did eat the bread of angels;
He sent them food in abundance.

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

“But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;
Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

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

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

They asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

It is vain for you to rise up early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.

“I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her needy with bread.