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Quotes About Hunger

The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.
~ Proverbs 27:7
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
~ Isaiah 8:21
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
~ Isaiah 9:20
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
~ Isaiah 29:8
For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
~ Isaiah 32:6
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
~ Isaiah 44:12
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
~ Isaiah 58:10
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
~ Isaiah 65:13
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
~ Jeremiah 14:6
and if you say, ëNo, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ramís horn or hunger for bread,í
~ Jeremiah 42:14
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
~ Lamentations 1:11
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
~ Lamentations 2:19
The nursing infantís tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
~ Lamentations 4:4
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
~ Lamentations 4:9
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
~ Lamentations 5:6
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
~ Lamentations 5:10
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
~ Micah 6:14
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
~ Matthew 4:2
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
~ Matthew 5:6
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
~ Matthew 12:1
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
~ Matthew 12:3
Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
~ Matthew 15:32
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
~ Matthew 21:18
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
~ Matthew 25:42