I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.

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

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.

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

Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.

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

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

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He cut off every source of bread.

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

Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

It is vain for you to rise early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of anxious labors—
For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep.

“I will abundantly bless her provisions;
I will satisfy her poor with bread.