For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

It eats away parts of his skin; ¹  the most terrible death ²  devours his limbs.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning devouring the prey, and in the evening dividing the plunder.”

All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

You love to use all the words that destroy, ¹  and the tongue that deceives.

They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields. ¹ 

They ¹  devour widows’ property, ²  and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

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 

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ¹  as well as frogs that overran their land. ² 

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured ¹  by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken. ² 

Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. ¹  Vent it on the peoples ²  who do not worship you. ³  For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. ⁴  They have completely destroyed them ⁵  and left their homeland in utter ruin.

But ¹  all who destroyed you will be destroyed. All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged. ² 

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view ¹  of the people.

Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. ¹ 

But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!”

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief ¹  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

When ¹  I close up the sky ²  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, ³  or send a plague among my people,

There is a generation whose teeth are like ¹  swords ²  and whose molars ³  are like knives to devour ⁴  the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.