32 Bible Verses about No Food

While we were with you, we used to tell you: Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.

We have come to live in this country. The famine is so severe in the land of Canaan that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.

The seven years when there was plenty of food in Egypt came to an end.

The Israelites said to them: If only Jehovah had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!

and criticized God and Moses. They said: Why did you make us leave Egypt only to let us die in the desert? There is no bread or water, and we cannot stand this awful food!

The manna ceased the morning after they ate the old corn of the land. The children of Israel had no more manna. But they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who died of starvation. For these die slowly and waste away from lack of food from the field.

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt. It is 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. You have withheld bread from the hungry.

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

They will devour your harvest and your food. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will devour your flocks and your herds. They will devour your vines and your fig trees. They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Is not the food consumed before our eyes? Is joy and gladness removed from the House of our God?

Glory has gone from the daughter of Zion! Her rulers are like stags with no place to eat. They flee without strength from their attacker.

You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.

This is because a friend of mine is visiting and I do not have any food to feed him.

Finally it dawned on him, my father's hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve!

The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.

Joy and gladness are taken from the fruitful orchards and fields and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the wine presses. No one walks on the grapes with shouts of joy. There are shouts, but they are not shouts of joy.

They ran out of wine. So the mother of Jesus said to him: They have no wine.

Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.

A famine and great suffering came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan. Our fathers found no food.

The disciples came from the other side of the sea. They did not think to obtain bread.

They reasoned among themselves, saying: We took no bread.

They forgot to take bread and they only had one loaf with them in the boat.

They reasoned with one another saying: We have no bread. Hearing this Jesus said: Why do you reason about having no bread? Do you not understand? Are your hearts dull of understanding?

It was one of those days when there was a great crowd of people. They had nothing to eat so he called his disciples.

Jesus said: I am concerned for these people because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Let the punishment for it fall on Joab and all his family! In every generation may there be some man in his family who has gonorrhea or a dreaded skin disease or is fit only to do a woman's work or is killed in battle or does not have enough to eat!

The old lions die without any prey to eat, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek Jehovah's help have all the good things they need.