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30 Bible Verses About Hunger

  1. Matthew 5:6 (NIV):

    “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

  2. Luke 6:21a (NIV):

    “Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.”

  3. John 6:35 (NIV):

    “Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.'”

  4. Psalm 107:9 (NIV):

    “For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.”

  5. Isaiah 55:1 (NIV):

    “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”

  6. Psalm 34:10 (NIV):

    “The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”

  7. Psalm 63:1 (NIV):

    “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”

  8. Matthew 4:4 (NIV):

    “Jesus answered, ‘It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

  9. Psalm 42:1-2 (NIV):

    “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?”

  10. Psalm 107:5-6 (NIV):

    “They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.”

  11. Isaiah 41:17 (NIV):

    “The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.”

  12. John 4:13-14 (NIV):

    “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'”

  13. Psalm 143:6 (NIV):

    “I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.”

  14. John 7:37-38 (NIV):

    “On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.'”

  15. Isaiah 49:10 (NIV):

    “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.”

  16. Isaiah 44:3 (NIV):

    “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.”

  17. Revelation 7:16-17 (NIV):

    “‘Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them,’ nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

  18. Isaiah 58:11 (NIV):

    “The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

  19. John 6:51 (NIV):

    “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

  20. Revelation 22:17 (NIV):

    “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.”

  21. Matthew 25:35 (NIV):

    “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,”

  22. Psalm 107:36 (NIV):

    “He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;”

  23. Isaiah 58:10 (NIV):

    “And if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”

  24. Jeremiah 31:25 (NIV):

    “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”

  25. Psalm 22:26 (NIV):

    “The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord will praise him— may your hearts live forever!”

  26. Isaiah 65:13-14 (NIV):

    “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame. My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.'”

  27. Amos 8:11 (NIV):

    “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.”

  28. Psalm 146:7 (NIV):

    “He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free,”

  29. Isaiah 49:8 (NIV):

    “This is what the Lord says: ‘In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,”

  30. Amos 8:13 (NIV):

    ““In that day the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.”