'Lack' in the Bible

suppose the 50 righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.”

a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.

you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.

although we have both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man with your servant. There is nothing we lack.”

But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own country?”“Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothingor a needy person without a cloak,

Who provides the raven’s foodwhen its young cry out to Godand wander about for lack of food? >

A Davidic psalm.The Lord is my shepherd;there is nothing I lack.

You who are His holy ones, fear Yahweh,for those who fear Him lack nothing.

Young lions lack food and go hungry,but those who seek the Lordwill not lack any good thing.

The lips of the righteous feed many,but fools die for lack of sense.

I am more stupid than any other man,and I lack man’s ability to understand.

The heart of her husband trusts in her,and he will not lack anything good.

Therefore My people will go into exilebecause they lack knowledge;her dignitaries are starving,and her masses are parched with thirst.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,or lack compassion for the child of her womb?Even if these forget,yet I will not forget you.

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

ט TetThose slain by the sword are better offthan those slain by hunger,who waste away, pierced with painbecause the fields lack produce.

So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd; they became food for all the wild animals when they were scattered.

As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.Because you have rejected knowledge,I will reject you from serving as My priest.Since you have forgotten the law of your God,I will also forget your sons.

“I have kept all these,” the young man told Him. “What do I still lack?”

Then, looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

When Jesus heard this, He told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”“Not a thing,” they said.

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.