7 occurrences

'Devour' in the Bible

Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience],Your cities are burned with fire,Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence;It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn awayBut His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Verse ConceptseastHand Of GodGod's HandEast And WestGod's Hands Stretched Outsyria

They slice off [in discord] what is on the right hand but are still hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each eats the flesh of his own arm.

Verse ConceptsStomachs

And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame,And it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the rich valley,Will be like the early fig before the summer,Which one sees,And as soon as it is in his handHe [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarvestNo BeautyWorse

Then the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,And a sword not of man will devour him.And he will flee from the sword [of God],And his young men will become forced labor.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

All you beasts of the field,All you beasts (hostile nations) in the forest,Come to eat.

Verse ConceptsForestsAnimals Eating PeopleAnimals Eating

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Consume (170 instances)
Devour (148 instances)
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