15 occurrences in 12 translations

'Consume' in the Bible

Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!

Verse ConceptsShavingMemphiscrowns

Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:Because you have spoken this word,I am going to make My wordsbecome fire in your mouth.These people are the wood,and the fire will consume them.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersFire Of God's WordSpeaking The Word God GivesspeakingThe Power Of Wordspeople

They will consume your harvest and your food.They will consume your sons and your daughters.They will consume your flocks and your herds.They will consume your vines and your fig trees.They will destroy with the swordyour fortified cities in which you trust.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFig treeFalse ConfidenceHarvestSowing And ReapingDestroying VineyardsWar As God's JudgmentDestruction Of CitiesNo FoodChildren SufferingNo More Tending The Flock

The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.

Verse ConceptsUseless Labour

I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

Verse ConceptsFig treedrynessGrapesHarvestSowing And ReapingVinesFamine

From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

Verse ConceptsNosesNeighing And Braying

Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Nature OfCalling upon GodDestruction Of CountriesNot Knowing GodGod Angry With The NationsNot PrayingNot Seeking God

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesdiseasesPlaguesPestilencePointless Fasting

And I have appointed over them four kinds, an affirmation of Jehovah, The sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the earth, to consume and to devour.

Verse ConceptsdogsWild Animals DevouringBirds EatingFour Other ThingsPets

If you do not listen to Me to consecrate the Sabbath day by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem and not be extinguished.”

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtBurning JerusalemSabbath Observed

I will punish you according to what you have done—this is the Lord’s declaration.I will kindle a fire in its forestthat will consume everything around it.’”

Verse ConceptsForestsSin, God's Judgment OnWarningFruits Of SinBurning PlantsHarming TreesRepaid For DeedsPunishment

All thy friends consume doth wind, And thy lovers into captivity do go, Surely then thou art ashamed, And hast blushed for all thy wickedness.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceWindShame Of Bad Conduct

And it hath come to pass, the nation and the kingdom that do not serve him -- Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon -- and that which putteth not its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, I lay a charge on that nation -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- till I consume them by his hand.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesYokesFamine Coming From God

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsBurning Citiessyriadamascus

The arrogant will stumble and fallwith no one to pick him up.I will set fire to his cities,and it will consume everything around him.”

Verse ConceptsStumblingAbaseAbasement Of The ProudDownfallBurning CitiesThe Proud Will Be Abaseduncertaintyarrogance

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Consume (170 instances)
Deplete (1 instance)
Destroy (457 instances)
Devour (148 instances)
Exhaust (12 instances)
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