Bible Verses About Provision in Despair

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

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

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.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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

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

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

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

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

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

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

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

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!

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

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

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

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

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.

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

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

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.