“Blessed are those who hunger ¹  and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ ¹ 

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, ¹  and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

And ¹  yearn ²  like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, ³  so that by it you may grow up to ⁴  salvation, ⁵ 

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat, ¹ 

Doesn’t my master drink from this cup ¹  and use it for divination? ²  You have done wrong!’” ³ 

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, ¹  and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. ² 

All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed ¹  to skin. ² 

Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

Everyone ¹  in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. ² 

You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

For the music director; a well-written song ²  by the Korahites. As a deer ³  longs ⁴  for streams of water, so I long ⁵  for you, O God!

Like a thorn ¹  that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. ² 

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, ¹  and your princes feast at the proper time ²  – with self-control and not in drunkenness. ³ 

Wild oxen will be slaughtered ¹  along with them, as well as strong bulls. ²  Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk ¹  in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.” ² 

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood up to the mountains, and the ravines will be full of your blood. ¹ 

Then John’s ¹  disciples came to Jesus ²  and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees ³  fast often, ⁴  but your disciples don’t fast?”