Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Seek
Relieve the soul
Bible References
Seek
Lamentations 1:19 “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
Mypriests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food torestore their strength themselves.
My
While they sought food to
Lamentations 2:12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As theirlife is poured out
On their mothers’ bosom.
“
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As their
On their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 4:4 The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because ofthirst;
The little onesask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
To the roof of its mouth because of
The little ones
But no one breaks it for them.
Deuteronomy 28:52 It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
2 Kings 6:25
There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’
Jeremiah 38:9
“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.”
Jeremiah 52:6
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
Ezekiel 4:15
Then He said to me, “See, I will give you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.”
Ezekiel 5:16
When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.
Relieve the soul
1 Samuel 30:11
Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they provided him water to drink.
See
Lamentations 1:9 Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
Shedid not consider her future.
Therefore she hasfallen astonishingly;
She has no comforter.
“See, O Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy hasmagnified himself!”
She
Therefore she has
“
For the enemy has
Lamentations 2:20 See, O Lord, and look!
Withwhom have You dealt thus?
Should womeneat their offspring,
The little ones who wereborn healthy?
Shouldpriest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
With
Should women
The little ones who were
Should
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Job 40:4 “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?
Ilay my hand on my mouth.
I
Psalm 25:15 My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He willpluck my feet out of the net.
For He will