'Devour' in the Bible

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, 'Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

They will no longer be prey for the nations and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely and no one will make them afraid.

therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign Lord.