Lack

…suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

…suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

…a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

…the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

…even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

…if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

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

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

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.

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

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

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.