They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: / But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, / But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.