'Food' in the Bible
And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.
כ KafAll her people groanwhile they search for bread.They have traded their precious belongings for foodin order to stay alive.Lord, look and seehow I have become despised.
ק QofI called to my lovers,but they betrayed me.My priests and eldersperished in the citywhile searching for foodto keep themselves alive.
(Lamed) Children say to their mothers, "Where are food and drink?" They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers' arms.
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
The tongue of the infant clingsTo the roof of its mouth because of thirst;The little ones ask for food,But no one gives it to them.
Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
Those who die by the sword are better off than those who die from starvation, who slowly waste away like those pierced through for lack of food from the fields.
י YodThe hands of compassionate womenhave cooked their own children;they became their foodduring the destruction of my dear people.
We made a treaty with Egyptand with Assyria, to get enough food.
We secure our food at the risk of our livesbecause of the sword in the wilderness.
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Board (50 instances)
- Bread (456 instances)
- Cheer (35 instances)
- Corn (106 instances)
- Diet (7 instances)
- Fare (7 instances)
- Feed (140 instances)
- Fodder (11 instances)
- Food (1197 instances)
- Forage (1 instance)
- Keep (1769 instances)
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