Hunger

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.   Exodus 16:3 

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.   Deuteronomy 8:3 

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.   Deuteronomy 28:48 

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.   Deuteronomy 32:24 

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.   Nehemiah 9:15 

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.   Job 18:12 

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.   Psalm 34:10 

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.   Proverbs 19:15 

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.   Isaiah 49:10 

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.   Jeremiah 38:9 

Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.   Jeremiah 42:14-16 

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.   Lamentations 2:19 

They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.   Lamentations 4:9 

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.   Ezekiel 34:29 

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.   Matthew 5:6 

Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.   Matthew 21:18 

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.   Luke 4:2 

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.   Luke 6:21 

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.   Luke 6:25 

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!   Luke 15:17 

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.   John 6:35 

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.   Romans 12:20 

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.   1 Corinthians 4:11-13 

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.   1 Corinthians 11:34 

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.   2 Corinthians 11:27 

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.   Revelation 6:8 

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.   Revelation 7:16 

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