Bible Verses About Deprivation

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

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!

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

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

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.