Quotes about Devoured

Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured." — DEUTERONOMY 31:17

The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

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.

Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.