Luke 15:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Job 30:4

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

Psalm 142:4

I look to the right and watch, but there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me, no man cares for me.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.

Luke 15:15

So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger!