Isaiah 30:20
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20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any longer, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.(A)
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Psalm 80:5
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5 You have fed them with the bread of tears
and given them tears to drink in full measure.(A)
Acts 14:22
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22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”(A)
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1 Kings 22:27
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27 and say: Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.”(A)
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Psalm 127:2
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2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](A)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
Amos 8:11-12
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11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord God,
when I will send a famine on the land,
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.(A)
12 They shall wander from sea to sea
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.(B)
Psalm 74:9
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9 We do not see our emblems;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is no one among us who knows how long.(A)
Psalm 102:9
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9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,(A)
Psalm 30:5
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5 For his anger is but for a moment;
his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may linger for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.(A)
Deuteronomy 16:3
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3 You must not eat with it anything leavened. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it—the bread of affliction—because you came out of the land of Egypt in great haste, so that all the days of your life you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt.(A)
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Ezekiel 4:13-17
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13 The Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.”(A) 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”(B) 15 Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”
16 Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread[a] in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.(C) 17 Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.(D)
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- 4.16 Heb staff of bread
Ephesians 4:11
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11 He himself granted that some are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers(A)
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Matthew 9:38
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38 therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
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Ezekiel 24:22-23
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22 And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your upper lip or eat the bread of mourners.[a] 23 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.(A)
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- 24.22 Vg Tg: Heb of men
2 Chronicles 18:26
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26 and say: Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I return in peace.”(A)
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