Quotes About Food

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

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

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.

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.

The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”