Luke 15:16

New International Version

He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Job 30:4

In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.

Psalm 142:4

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

Psalm 73:22

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

Isaiah 44:20

Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

Isaiah 57:3

“But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15:17

“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!