Hunger

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; — read the full passage →

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Hownarrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.

Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. — read the full passage →

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, — read the full passage →

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” — read the full passage →

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. — read the full passage →