192 verses contain “devour” (in the KJV: 157, in the BSB: 99) — showing 1–100
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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite
devoured also our money.
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly
squandered what was paid for us.
Come now therefore, and let us
slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath
devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a
vicious animal has
devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath
devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s
robe! A
vicious animal has
devoured him. Joseph has surely been
torn to pieces!”
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed
kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat
kine. So Pharaoh
awoke.
And the cows that were sickly and thin
devoured the seven
sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh
woke up,
And the seven thin ears
devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
And the thin heads of grain
swallowed up the seven
plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh
awoke and realized it was a dream.
And the
lean and the ill favoured
kine did eat up the first seven fat
kine:
Then the thin,
ugly cows
devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I
awoke.
When they had
devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as
ugly as it had been before. Then I
awoke.
And the thin ears
devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
And the thin heads of grain
swallowed the seven
plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
Benjamin shall
ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the
spoil.
Benjamin is a
ravenous wolf; in the morning he
devours the prey, in the evening he divides the
plunder.”
And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the
hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will
devour whatever is left after the
hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every
herb of the land, even all that the
hail hath left.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may
swarm over it and
devour every plant in the land—everything that the
hail has left behind.”
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like
devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a
consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
And there went out fire from the LORD, and
devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great
stature.
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had
spied out: “The land we
explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in
stature.
And Moab said unto the elders of
Midian, Now shall this company
lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
So the Moabites said to the elders of
Midian, “This
horde will
devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Behold, the people rise like a
lioness; they
rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they
devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an
unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and
pierce them through with his arrows.
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to
devour hostile nations and
crush their bones, to
pierce them with arrows.
And the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them up together with
Korah, when that company died, what time the fire
devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
And the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them along with
Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a
warning sign.
Then my anger shall be
kindled against them in that day, and I will
forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall
befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will
abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will
befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
They shall be burnt with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
They will be wasted from hunger and
ravaged by
pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the
venom of vipers that
slither in the dust.
I will make mine arrows
drunk with blood, and my sword shall
devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the
captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
I will make My arrows
drunk with blood, while My sword
devours flesh— the blood of the slain and
captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
And the
bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye
anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the
bramble, and
devour the cedars of
Lebanon.
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are
anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and
consume the cedars of
Lebanon.’
Then
Abner called to
Joab, and said, Shall the sword
devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then,
ere thou
bid the people return from following their brethren?
Then
Abner called out to
Joab: “Must the sword
devour forever? Do you not
realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
Then David said unto the
messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto
Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword
devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and
encourage thou him.
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood
devoured more people that day than the sword
devoured.
The battle spread over the whole
countryside, and that day the forest
devoured more people than the sword.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were
kindled by it.
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise:
yea, they are fallen under my feet.
I
devoured and
crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
And the dogs shall eat
Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and there shall be none to
bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
And on the plot of ground at
Jezreel the dogs will
devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to
bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of
Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of
Jezebel:
So they went back and told
Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant
Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at
Jezreel the dogs will
devour the flesh of
Jezebel.
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to
devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people;
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the
locust to
devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
It shall
devour the strength of his skin: even the
firstborn of death shall
devour his strength.
It
devours patches of his skin; the
firstborn of death
devours his limbs.
All darkness shall be
hid in his secret places: a fire not
blown shall
consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will
consume him and
devour what is left in his tent.
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
if I have
devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and
rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the
trumpet.
Trembling with excitement, he
devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were
kindled by it.
Thou shalt make them as a
fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall
swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall
devour them.
You will place them in a
fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will
engulf them, and the fire will
consume them.
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they
stumbled and fell.
When the wicked came upon me to
devour my flesh, my enemies and foes
stumbled and fell.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
You have given us up as sheep to be
devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about him.
Our God approaches and will not be silent!
Consuming fire precedes Him, and a
tempest rages around Him.
You love every word that
devours, O
deceitful tongue.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
He sent
divers sorts of
flies among them, which
devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
For they have
devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
The
boar out of the wood
doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field
doth devour it.
The
boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and
devoured the fruit of their ground.
They
devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth
swallows iniquity.
It is a
snare to the man who
devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make
enquiry.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as
knives, to
devour the poor from off the earth, and the
needy from among men.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley
pluck it out and young vultures
devour it.
Your country is
desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers
devour it in your presence, and it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
But if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
But if you resist and
rebel, you will be
devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the
spoil of the poor is in your houses.
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have
devoured the
vineyard; the
plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Therefore as the fire
devoureth the
stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have
devoured Israel with open mouths.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall
devour the briers and thorns, and shall
kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
And he shall
snatch on the right hand, and be
hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
They
carve out what is on the right, but they are still
hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one
devours the flesh of his own offspring.
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim
Manasseh; together they turn against Judah.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
Therefore hath the
curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Therefore a
curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few
survive.
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be
ashamed for their
envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall
devour them.
O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will
consume them!
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire:
Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from
afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of
fury, and His tongue is like a
consuming fire.
And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall
shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a
devouring fire, with
scattering, and
tempest, and hailstones.
And the LORD will cause His
majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in
angry wrath with a flame of
consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall
devour him: but he shall
flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will
devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will
flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Ye shall conceive
chaff, ye shall bring forth
stubble: your breath, as fire, shall
devour you.
The sinners in
Zion are afraid;
fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the
devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings?
I have long time
holden my peace; I have been still, and
refrained myself: now will I cry like a
travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once.
“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will
groan like a woman in labor; I will at once
gasp and
pant.
For thy waste and thy
desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away.
For your ruined and
desolate places and your
ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who
devoured you will be far away.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the
moth shall eat them up.
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to
condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the
moths will
devour them.
For the
moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
For the
moth will
devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last
forever, My salvation through all generations.”
All ye beasts of the field, come to
devour,
yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat
greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
Israel was
holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that
devour him shall
offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who
devoured her found themselves guilty;
disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
In vain have I
smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath
devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has
devoured your prophets like a
voracious lion.”
For shame hath
devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall
impoverish thy
fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
They will
devour your harvest and food; they will
consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
The
snorting of his horses was heard from
Dan: the whole land
trembled at the sound of the
neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have
devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
The
snorting of enemy horses is heard from
Dan. At the sound of the
neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to
devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
Pour out thy
fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his
habitation desolate.
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have
devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have
devastated his homeland.
Mine
heritage is unto me as a
speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye,
assemble all the beasts of the field, come to
devour.
Is not My inheritance to Me like a
speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to
devour her.
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
And I will
appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to
slay, and the dogs to
tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to
devour and destroy.
I will
appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to
drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to
devour and destroy.
But if ye will not
hearken unto me to
hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I
kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be
quenched.
But if you do not
listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will
kindle an
unquenchable fire in its gates to
consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
But I will
punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will
kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall
devour all things round about it.
I will
punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will
kindle a fire in your forest that will
consume everything around you.’”
Therefore all they that
devour thee shall be
devoured; and all thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil thee shall be a
spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may
avenge him of his
adversaries: and the sword shall
devour, and it shall be
satiate and made
drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of
vengeance against His foes. The sword will
devour until it is satisfied, until it is
quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Declare ye in Egypt, and
publish in
Migdol, and
publish in
Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall
devour round about thee.
They that fled stood under the shadow of
Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of
Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall
devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the
tumultuous ones.
“Those who
flee will stand helpless in
Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from
Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It
devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of
tumult.
All who found them
devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have
sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath
devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Israel is a scattered flock,
chased away by lions. The first to
devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to
crush his bones was
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
And the most proud shall
stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will
kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall
devour all round about him.
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath
devoured me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath
swallowed me up like a
dragon, he hath filled his
belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
The LORD hath accomplished his
fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath
kindled a fire in
Zion, and it hath
devoured the foundations thereof.
The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has
kindled a fire in
Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
The sword is without, and the
pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and
pestilence shall
devour him.
The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be
devoured by famine and plague.
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire
devours both ends, and the middle is
charred. Can it be useful for anything?
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
devoured it, and it is burned?
Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and
charred it!
And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will
consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.
