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Bible Verses About Hunger

This collection includes 50 passages about Hunger. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Scripture Passages

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

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

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The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

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

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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.

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

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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

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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?

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For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

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For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

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Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

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And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

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

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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!

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And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

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For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

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

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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.

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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

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And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

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

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A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

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But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

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It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

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And the famine was sore in the land.

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I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

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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.

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

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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.

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And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

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And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

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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.

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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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

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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

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In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,

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