When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread---it will be called the bread of suffering---so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.

Tell them to throw him in prison and to put him on bread and water until I return safely."

Tell them to throw him in prison and to put him on bread and water until I return safely."

His anger lasts only a moment, his goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning.

You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.

Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.

It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the LORD provides for those he loves, while they are asleep.

The LORD said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries."

So God said, "Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that."

They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins."

Then you will do what I have done. You will not cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

You will not go bareheaded or barefoot or mourn or cry. You will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan to one another.

They strengthened the believers and encouraged them to remain true to the faith. "We must pass through many troubles to enter the Kingdom of God," they taught.

All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.

"The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hunger and thirst for a message from the LORD. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

People will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and then on around from the north to the east. They will look everywhere for a message from the LORD, but they will not find it.

Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest."

It was he who "gave gifts to people"; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers.