1 Kings 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ¹ 

1 Kings 22:27

22:27 Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water ²  until I safely return.”’” ³ 

Psalms 102:9

102:9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, ⁴ 

and mix my drink with my tears, ⁵ 

Ezekiel 4:14

4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat ⁶  has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 4:16

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ⁷  in Jerusalem. ⁸  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Ezekiel 12:18-19

12:18 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, ⁹  and drink your water with anxious shaking. 12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

Daniel 10:3

10:3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, ¹⁰  nor did I anoint myself with oil ¹¹  until the end of those three weeks.

[17:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

[22:27]  ² tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”

[22:27]  ³ tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.

[102:9]  ⁴ sn Mourners would sometimes put ashes on their head or roll in ashes as a sign of mourning (see 2 Sam 13:19; Job 2:8; Isa 58:5).

[102:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “weeping.”

[4:14]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).

[4:16]  ⁷ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

[4:16]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:18]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term normally refers to an earthquake (see 1 Kgs 19:11; Amos 1:1).

[10:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “mouth.”

[10:3]  ¹¹ sn Anointing oneself with oil (usually olive oil) was a common OT practice due to the severity of the Middle Eastern sun (cf. Ps 121:6). It was also associated with rejoicing (e.g., Prov 27:9) and was therefore usually not practiced during a period of mourning.