32 Bible Verses about No Food

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end,

and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you

You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword."

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."

Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.

And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."

Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?

In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!"

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.