Luke 15:16

And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.

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Cross References

Job 30:4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

Psalms 142:4Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Isaiah 55:2Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Lamentations 4:5They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

Jonah 2:2and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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