Hunger

When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

…and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

…in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

…in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’