Thematic Bible: (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty
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I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.