Quotes About Sustenance

Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.