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

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou shalt 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 I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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 the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

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

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest 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 hath gone out of my lips.

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy 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 maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

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

The people asked, and he brought quails, 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 early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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

Let the righteous smite 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 in their calamities.