Quotes About Sustenance

He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.

The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

You will have plenty of goatsí milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

whose foliage was beautiful and whose fruit was abundant, providing food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in whose branches the birds of the air nested—