Luke 15:16

The English Standar Version

And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Hosea 12:1

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

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

Isaiah 44:20

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

Psalm 142:4

Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

Isaiah 55:2

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

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Matthew 7:6

"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to[2] one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15:17

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

Job 30:4

they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.[1]