Thematic Bible: Of appetite


Thematic Bible



And this would happen year by year when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she would provoke her; therefore, she would weep and not eat.

But he refused and said, I will not eat. But his slaves, together with the woman, compelled him, and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the ground and sat upon a bed.


Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death.


We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,

The soul of him that labours, labours for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth, and with the product of his lips shall he be filled.

and put a knife to thy throat if thou art a man given to appetite.

They have stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not; when I shall awake, I will seek it yet again.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and with all this the appetite is not filled.

It shall even be as he who dreams that he is hungry, and in his dream, he eats; but when he awakes, his soul is empty; and as he who dreams that he is thirsty, and, in his dream, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul is still thirsty: so shall the multitude of all the Gentiles be, that shall fight against Mount Zion.

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.