Lukas 12:22-31

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²² And Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Therefore, I say to you: do not have a LEV ROGEZ (DEVARIM 28:65) for your Chayyim, about your okhel (food) or your basar (body), what you might put on.

²³ For the neshamah is more than okhel and the basar more than gartel (belt) and shtreimel (expensive hat). BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9 10; IYOV 19:25 27, YESHAYAH 53:11

²⁴ Consider the ravens! They do not sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or asam (granary), yet Hashem feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the OPH HASHOMAYIM [IYOV 38:41; TEHILLIM 147:9]

²⁵ And can any of you by means of a LEV ROGEZ add one cubit to your span of Chayyim?

²⁶ If then you are not able to do even a small thing, why have a LEV ROGEZ about the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies! How they grow! A lily does not labor nor spin. But I say to you, not even Shlomo HaMelech in all his kavod was arrayed like one of these. [MELACHIM ALEF 10:4 7]

²⁸ And if Hashem so enrobes the grass of the field, which is here hayom (today) and thrown into the eish makhar (tomorrow), how much more will Hashem enrobe you, you ones of little bitachon.

²⁹ And don’t keep striving after okhel (food) and skikuy (drink), and don’t have a lev rogez (anxious heart).

³⁰ For all these things the Goyim of the Olam Hazeh strive after, but your Av [shbaShomayim] has daas (knowledge) that you need these things.

³¹ But seek the Malchut Hashem, and these things will be added to you as well.