Luke 15:16

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.

17And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?

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Cross References

Job 30:4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Psalms 142:4Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

Isaiah 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not breed, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

Lamentations 4:5He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Jonah 2:2And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish.

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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