I will make My weapons drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh[, it shall gorge itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.

And Abner called Joab and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? Know you not that it will be bitter in the end? How long then will you refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren?

And the Assyrian shall fall; not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword; but the young men shall be overthrown;