52 Verses About Swallow from 24 Books

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Samuel 17:16

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, 'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"

2 Samuel 20:19

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"

2 Samuel 20:20

Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,



Deuteronomy 11:6

and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Exodus 7:12

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Exodus 15:12

You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord the LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

Genesis 41:7

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

Genesis 41:24

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."



Habakkuk 1:13

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Hebrews 11:29

By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord the LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.

Isaiah 28:7

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 38:14

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."



Isaiah 49:19

"For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

Epistle of Jeremiah 6:22

Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know the LORD's law.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Job 7:19

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Job 20:15

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.



Job 20:18

That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

Job 37:20

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Jonah 1:17

the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!



Numbers 16:30

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."

Numbers 16:32

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 16:34

All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

Obadiah 1:16

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Proverbs 1:12

let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Proverbs 21:20

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

Psalms 21:9

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. the LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Psalms 35:25

Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

Psalms 56:1

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Psalms 56:2

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Psalms 69:15

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Psalms 84:3

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, the LORD of Armies, my King, and my God.

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Psalms 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Revelation 12:16

The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.





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