Quotes about Devours

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.

“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’

“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

My cheek blanches white while I write; I start at the scratch of my pen; my own mad brood of eagles devours me; fain would I unsay this audacity; but an iron-mailed hand clenches mine in a vice, and prints down every letter in my spite.

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.