Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

But the former governors that were before me had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no break left in it; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

The men of the house of bread and Netophah, a hundred eighty and eight

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

for the rows of bread, the offering of the daily sacrifice, the continual [burnt] sacrifice, the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, the appointed [festival] times, the holy objects, the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Then reproved I the rulers in Judah, and said unto them, "What evil thing is this that ye do, and break the Sabbath day?

Did not our fathers even thus, and our God brought all this plague upon us and upon this city? And ye make the wrath more yet upon Israel, in that ye break the Sabbath."

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds.

For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water

My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.

While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:

He breaks me with break on break; He runs on me like a giant.

How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth.

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

In the dark they break into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.

If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

It will toss him around without pity. He'll try to break free from its grip,

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans --

Behold, my belly as wine it will not open; it will break open as new wine skins.

And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their place.

For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors;

And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

Lo, the river overfloweth he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

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

You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."

Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies [on the] cheek. [The] teeth of [the] wicked you break.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

For by thee I will break down a troop, and in my God I will leap upon the wall.

Thou causing me to break forth from the womb: causing me to trust upon my mother's breasts.

Though an army deploys against me,
my heart is not afraid;
though a war breaks out against me,
still I am confident.

Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

The voice of Jehovah broke the cedars; and Jehovah will break the cedars of Lebanon.

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

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

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

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Thou thyself, with thine own hand - Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:

God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.

He causes wars to cease all over the earth, he causes the bow to break, the spear to snap, the chariots to ignite and burn.

With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

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

Yea, they lay hands upon such as be at peace with him, and so they break his covenant.

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

To the overseer upon the lily of song: poem to David to teach; In the setting on fire Aram of the two rivers, and Aram of the station; and Joab will turn back and strike Edom in the valley of salt, twelve thousand. O God, thou didst cast us off, thou didst break us down, thou wert angry; wilt thou turn back to us?

How long will ye assail a man; will ye seek, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

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

The just one shall break forth in his days, and a multitude of peace even till no moon.

For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

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

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

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

All the horns of the ungodly will I break, and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

He rained down manna upon them for to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.

Humankind ate [the] bread of {angels}. He sent them food [enough] to be satisfied.

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

Thou didst break Rahab in pieces as the wounded one; with the arm of thy strength thou didst scatter thine enemies.

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

And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

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

Thou didst break down all his walls; thou didst set his fortifications a ruin.

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

They shall break in upon the soul of the just one, and they shall condemn innocent blood.

Shout to Jehovah, all the earth, Break forth, and cry aloud, and sing.

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

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

They water every beast of the field, Wild asses break their thirst.

Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

wine that makes man’s heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.

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

And he will strike their vine and their fig trees, and he will break the tree of their bound.

They asked, and He brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

And they will irritate in their doings, and the blow will break upon them.