⁴ tn Heb “consumed.”

³ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

² tn Heb “It is the Lord’s consuming sword.”

² tn The verb אָכַל (ʾakhal, “to consume, to devour”) is used twice for emphasis: “the fire will consume you, the sword…will devour you.”

³ tn Heb “consumed.” This entire line is restated at the end of v. 20.

¹ tn Heb “foreigners consume his strength”; cf. NRSV “devour (NIV “sap”) his strength.”

⁷ tn Or “He burned against Jacob as a raging fire consumes all around.”

⁴ tn Heb “until the whole scroll was consumed upon the fire that was in the fire pot.”

² tn Heb “burn” (so NASB); NAB, NRSV, NLT “consume”; NIV “set you ablaze.”

³ tn Heb “and sons of violence will no longer consume them as in the beginning.”

⁷ tn See L&N 20.45 for the translation of κατεσθίω (katesthiō) as “to destroy utterly, to consume completely.”

³ tn See L&N 20.45 for the translation of κατεσθίω (katesthiō) as “to destroy utterly, to consume completely.”

² tn Or “has consumed.” The Qal perfect אָכְלָה (ʾokhlah) from אָכַל (ʾakhal, “to consume”) refers either to a past-time action (“has consumed”) or a present-time action (“consumes”). The context suggests the present-time sense is preferable here. This is an example of the “instantaneous perfect” which represents a situation occurring at the very instant the expression is being uttered (see IBHS 488-89 §30.5.1).

¹ sn Invading armies lived off the land, using up all the produce and destroying everything they could not consume.

⁶ tn Heb “like wood and it [i.e., the fire I put in your mouth] will consume them.”

² tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

² tn The verse stresses the completeness of their death: “will we be consumed by dying” (הַאִם תַּמְנוּ לִגְוֹעַ, haʾim tamnu ligvoaʿ).

² tn Heb “he shall lift up the fatty ashes which the fire shall consume the burnt offering on the altar.”

³ tn The final clause could also be turned into an adverbial clause of means: “They will consume her flesh by burning her with fire.”

² tn Or “celebrated with ostentation” (L&N 88.255), that is, with showing off. Here was the original conspicuous consumer.