Hunger and thirst imagery uses bodily need for food and water to picture dependence, famine judgment, spiritual longing, desire for righteousness, and final satisfaction in God.
Hunger and thirst imagery uses bodily need for food and water to picture dependence, famine judgment, spiritual longing, desire for righteousness, and final satisfaction in God.
An appetite-and-deprivation motif in which hunger, thirst, and famine function as embodied metaphors for covenant discipline, spiritual desire, word-deprivation, Christ-centered satisfaction, or eschatological relief.
These examples show how Hunger, Thirst, Famine, and Soul-Longing Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the famine was over all the face of the earth
Famine frames human need and Gods providential preservation.
he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger
Hunger becomes a wilderness lesson in dependence on Gods word.
my soul thirsteth for God
Thirst pictures intense longing for the living God.
my soul thirsteth for thee
Spiritual desire is expressed through thirst in a dry land.
Ho, every one that thirsteth
Thirst becomes an invitation to receive free covenant mercy.
a famine... of hearing the words of the LORD
Famine imagery is applied to deprivation of Gods word.
hunger and thirst after righteousness
Jesus blesses those whose desire for righteousness is like bodily hunger and thirst.
he that cometh to me shall never hunger
Christ promises satisfaction for spiritual appetite.
I thirst
The crucified Christ expresses thirst in fulfillment and suffering.
they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more
Final salvation is pictured as the end of hunger and thirst.
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