Luke 15:16

WEB

¹⁶He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

KJV

¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

BSB

¹⁶He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

FBV

¹⁶He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food,^[+] but no one gave him anything.

Extra References

Romans 6:19-21

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. ²⁰For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Lamentations 4:5

⁵Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

Psalms 142:4

⁴Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Isaiah 44:20

²⁰He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Hosea 12:1

¹Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Psalms 73:22

²²I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Isaiah 55:2

²Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Isaiah 57:3

³“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

Jonah 2:2-8

²He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol^[+] I cried. You heard my voice. ³For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. ⁴I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ ⁵The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. ⁶I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God. ⁷“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. ⁸Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.