Thematic Bible: Of appetite


Thematic Bible



And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.


Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.


We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:

The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto .

A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.

And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

They have stricken me,'shalt thou say , and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

Come ye,'say they , I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.


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