Quotes about Food

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.

The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.

but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”

Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?