Set the empty pot on the coals, ¹  until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot ²  is consumed.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume ¹  them?” ² 

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, ¹  beware that you are not consumed ²  by one another.

The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. ¹  Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared. ² 

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! ¹ 

So he caused them to die unsatisfied ¹  and filled with terror. ² 

Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked. ¹ 

I desperately long to know ¹  your regulations at all times.

The fool folds his hands and does no work, ¹  so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh. ² 

So I will set Teman ¹  on fire; fire ²  will consume Bozrah’s ³  fortresses.”

So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem’s fortresses.” ¹ 

Fire consumed their ¹  young men, and their ²  virgins remained unmarried. ³ 

For my days go up in smoke, ¹  and my bones are charred like a fireplace. ² 

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad.” ¹ 

ח (Khet) The Lord’s loyal kindness ¹  never ceases; ²  his compassions ³  never end.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ¹ 

But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind ¹  dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered – a fire consumed them.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, ¹  declares the sovereign Lord.”

When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.