Isaiah 30:20

The Lord Will Heal His People's Wounds

¹⁹ For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you. ²⁰ The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher, ²¹ and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Bread and Water

Bread of Adversity

Lord Shall

Water of Affliction

Jehovah

No

1 Kings 22:27

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

Psalm 74:9

There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.

Psalm 80:5

You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.

Psalm 127:2

In vain you get up early and stay up late,
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

Deuteronomy 16:3

You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 18:26

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

Psalm 30:5

For His anger lasts only a moment,
but His favor, a lifetime.
Weeping may spend the night,
but there is joy in the morning.

Psalm 102:9

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

Ezekiel 4:13-17

The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”

Ezekiel 24:22-23

Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.

Amos 8:11-12

Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.

Matthew 9:38

Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Acts 14:22

strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”

Ephesians 4:11

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,