Quotes about Sustenance
And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
- 1 Kings 19:6
A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
- 1 Kings 19:7
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- 1 Kings 19:8
And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.
- 2 Kings 25:30
Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
- Nehemiah 5:2
In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
- Nehemiah 9:15
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
- Nehemiah 9:21
My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
- Job 29:19
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
- Job 30:4
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
- Job 36:27
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
- Psalm 3:5
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
- Psalm 33:19