'Swallow' in the Bible
I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city in Israel. Why should you swallow up the Lord's inheritance?"
Joab answered, "Get serious! I don't want to swallow up or destroy anything!
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
Don't let the current overpower me! Don't let the deep swallow me up! Don't let the pit devour me!
Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God.
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.
On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations;
he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people's disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!
Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.
They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
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