Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

The Lord satisfies the appetite of the righteous, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.

People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

They will not be hungry or thirsty; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water.

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth.

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’