21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

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Leviticus 25:20

If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

Lamentations 2:12

They tell their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" When they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in their mothers' bosom.

Job 15:23

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Luke 12:22

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

Psalm 59:15

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to refresh the soul. "Look, LORD, and see, for I am despised."

Lamentations 4:4

The nursing infant's tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, but no one gives to them.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:6

We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city, while they searched for food to refresh their souls.

Genesis 39:6

He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He did not concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live."

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

Matthew 15:33

Then the disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a crowd?"

Luke 9:12

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."

Luke 16:21

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

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