<p class="poetry">My heart is parched<n id="1" /> and withered like grass,p> <p class="poetry">for I am unable<n id="2" /> to eat food.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He provides grass<n id="1" /> for the cattle,p> <p class="poetry">and crops for people to cultivate,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so they can produce food from the ground,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">as well as wine that makes people feel so good,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and so they can have oil to make their faces shine,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as well as food that sustains people&#8217;s lives.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">vindicates the oppressed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and gives food to the hungry.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> releases the imprisoned.p>

<p class="poetry">for on account<n id="1" /> of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread,p> <p class="poetry">but the wife of another man<n id="2" /> preys on your precious life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not love sleep,<n id="1" /> lest you become impoverished;p> <p class="poetry">open your eyes so that<n id="2" /> you might be satisfied with food.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not eat the food of a stingy person,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">do not crave his delicacies;p>

<p class="poetry">If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,p> <p class="poetry">and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,p>

<p class="poetry">To show partiality<n id="1" /> is terrible,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Feasts<n id="1" /> are made<n id="2" /> for laughter,p> <p class="poetry">and wine makes life merry,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but money is the answer<n id="4" /> for everything.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Send<n id="1" /> your grain<n id="2" /> overseas,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for after many days you will get a return.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Bring out some water for the thirsty.p> <p class="poetry">You who live in the land of Tema,p> <p class="poetry">bring some food for the fugitives.p>

<p class="poetry">This is the person who will live in a secure place;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will have foodp> <p class="poetry">and a constant supply of water.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who suffers<n id="1" /> will soon be released;p> <p class="poetry">he will not die in prison,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will not go hungry.<n id="3" />p>

By the ninth day of the fourth month<n id="1" /> the famine in the city was so severe the residents<n id="2" /> had no food.

Jehoiachin<n id="1" /> took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king&#8217;s presence for the rest of his life.

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1491; (<i>Daleti>)p> <p class="poetry">The infant&#8217;s tongue sticksp> <p class="poetry">to the roof of its mouth due to thirst;p> <p class="poetry">little children beg for bread,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but no one gives them even a morsel.<n id="2" />p>

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, eat your bread with trembling,<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="1" />