20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed.

You should know {today} that Yahweh your God is the one crossing {ahead of you} [as] a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, {just as} Yahweh {promised} you.

While he [was] still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger [was] coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble [is] from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"

Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I [am] bringing evil from [the] north, and a great destruction.

Thus you will say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, what I have built I [am] about to tear down, and what I have planted I [am] about to pluck up, it [is] all the land.

Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured [with] a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away.

Your hands fashioned me and made me {altogether}, then you destroyed me.

You have forsaken me," {declares} Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.

Wail, for the day of Yahweh [is] near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!

That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds,

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of {every one who passes by}.

Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.

The one who makes destruction flash upon [the] fierce, {so that} destruction comes upon [the] fortification.

For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound."

Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are.