21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

You may ask: What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?'

They say to their mothers: Where is grain and wine? When they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town. Their life is drained out while on their mother's breast.

The people complained about Moses. They asked: What can we drink?

He wanders about as food for vultures and he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Do not worry! Do not say: 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'What shall we wear?'

I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink. And do not worry about your body, what you will wear. Is life worth more than food? And is the body worth more than clothes?

Do not seek food and drink and do not worry.

He told his disciples: Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you eat or what you wear on your body.

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

They wander around to find food. If they are not full enough, they will stay all night.

Her people are sighing and looking for bread. They have given their desired things for something to eat to give them life. See, O Jehovah, and take note. She has become a thing of shame.

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.

We risk our lives to get food, because of the sword of the wasteland.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me. My priests and my responsible men are dying. They look for food to give them new life.

Potiphar turned over everything he had to the care of Joseph. He did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Joseph was well built and good-looking.

Some said: We with our sons and our daughters are a great number. Let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

The disciples replied: Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?

As the day wore on the twelve came to him and said: Send the people away, that they may go into the villages and country nearby to find lodging and get food, for we are here in a lonely place.

He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.