21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

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Leviticus 25:20

"Now if you ask, "What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'

Lamentations 2:12

They ask their mothers, "Is there anything to eat or drink?" They faint in the streets of the city like wounded men. Their life ebbs away while they lie on their mother's bosom.

Job 15:23

He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

Luke 12:22

Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear,

Job 24:5

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

Psalm 59:15

They scavenge for food. If they find nothing, they become hungry and growl.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groaned as they searched for food. They traded their valuables in order to eat, to keep themselves alive. Look, LORD, and see how I have become dishonored.

Lamentations 4:4

The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Lamentations 5:9

We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.

Lamentations 5:6

We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.

Lamentations 1:19

I called out to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have died within the city while looking for something to eat to keep themselves alive.

Genesis 39:6

Everything that he owned, he entrusted into Joseph's care. He never concerned himself about anything, except for the food he ate.

Nehemiah 5:2

because certain of them kept claiming, "Since we have so many sons and daughters, we must get some grain so we can eat and survive."

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore you'd better look out! I'm going to turn you over to men from the East, who will dominate you. You will become their property. They will set up military encampments and permanent places in which to live among you, and then they'll eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Matthew 15:33

The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?"

Luke 9:12

As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, because we are here in a deserted place."

Luke 16:21

He was always trying to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs used to come and lick his sores.

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