'Lack' in the Bible
What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.