32 Bible Verses about No Food

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."

Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food."

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

(Dalet) The infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

(Vav) All of Daughter Zion's splendor has departed. Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape from the hunter.

You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.'"

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

Joy and gladness will disappear from the fruitful land of Moab. I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses. No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers, not the shouts of those making wine.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine left."

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

When the disciples went to the other side, they forgot to take bread.

So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "It is because we brought no bread."

Now they had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread. When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab's house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!"

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

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.