Luke 15:16

New Messianic Version Bible

And he would fain (earnestly want to or long to; gladly) have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

Cross References

Hosea 12:1

Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the children of Ashur, and oil is carried into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

Lamentations 4:5

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Isaiah 44:20

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

Psalm 142:4

I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near here, you2f sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Isaiah 55:2

For what reason do you2f spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you2f [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Psalm 73:22

So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before youi.

Matthew 7:6

Again he said to them: “Do not give holy flesh to dogs nor place your pearls before swine lest they chew them before you and turn to tear you to pieces”.

Luke 15:15

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Luke 15:17

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Job 30:4

Who cut up mallow (to approve, commend, accept)s by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.