Lamentations 1:11
"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."
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- Jeremiah 52:6
"And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 38:9
"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."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 2:12
"They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 30:11
"And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:52
"And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:4
"The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 25:15
"Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 2:20
"Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?"
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 1:9
"Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 1:19
"I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
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