Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
Cross References
Matthew 6:11Give us this day our daily bread.
1 Timothy 6:8But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:7Two things I ask of You--do not refuse me before I die:
Treasury of Scripture
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
remove
Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
feed
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Genesis 48:15,16
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, …
Exodus 16:15,18,21,22,29,35
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat…
convenient for me or of my allowance
2 Kings 25:30
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah 52:34
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
