Luke 15:16

A Conservative Version

And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him.

Cross References

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Psalm 142:4

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Psalm 73:22

So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

Matthew 7:6

Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them by their feet, and having turn back may lacerate you.

Luke 15:15

And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

Job 30:4

They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.