Verse 3

Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:25 : 25 Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.
  • Ps 34:9-9 : 9 Fear Jehovah, ye His holy ones, For there is no lack to those fearing Him. 10 Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
  • Matt 6:30-33 : 30 `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith? 31 therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? 32 for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; 33 but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
  • Luke 12:22-24 : 22 And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on; 23 the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing. 24 `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?
  • Luke 12:31 : 31 but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' 6 so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell `in' the land, and enjoy faithfulness,
  • Ps 37:19 : 19 They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.
  • Isa 33:16 : 16 He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock `are' his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
  • Hab 2:6-8 : 6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? 7 Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!
  • Job 5:20 : 20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
  • Job 20:5-8 : 5 That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, 6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike -- 7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where `is' he?' 8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
  • Job 20:20-22 : 20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. 21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
  • Job 20:28 : 28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.
  • Ps 33:19 : 19 To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.