My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

vindicates the oppressed, and gives food to the hungry. The Lord releases the imprisoned.

for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

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

To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.

This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.

The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.