'Hungry' in the Bible

He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,But those who were hungry cease to hunger.Even the barren gives birth to seven,But she who has many children languishes.

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

“His harvest the hungry devourAnd take it to a place of thorns,And the schemer is eager for their wealth.

“To the weary you have given no water to drink,And from the hungry you have withheld bread.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

“If I were hungry I would not tell you,For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

They were hungry and thirsty;Their soul fainted within them.

For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.

And there He makes the hungry to dwell,So that they may establish an inhabited city,

Who executes justice for the oppressed;Who gives food to the hungry.The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Men do not despise a thief if he stealsTo satisfy himself when he is hungry;

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

It will be as when a hungry man dreams—And behold, he is eating;But when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied,Or as when a thirsty man dreams—And behold, he is drinking,But when he awakens, behold, he is faintAnd his thirst is not quenched.Thus the multitude of all the nations will beWho wage war against Mount Zion.

For a fool speaks nonsense,And his heart inclines toward wickedness:To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,To keep the hungry person unsatisfiedAnd to withhold drink from the thirsty.

The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungryAnd bring the homeless poor into the house;When you see the naked, to cover him;And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

And if you give yourself to the hungryAnd satisfy the desire of the afflicted,Then your light will rise in darknessAnd your gloom will become like midday.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God,“Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry.Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty.Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.

But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,

And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;

Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance.”

On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.

“He has filled the hungry with good things;And sent away the rich empty-handed.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.

And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.

I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.