Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Bible References

Hunger-bitten

Job 15:23

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
1 Samuel 2:5

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.
Psalm 34:10

The young lions lack [food] and grow hungry,
But they who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.
Psalm 109:10

Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

Destruction

Psalm 7:12

If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].