20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

What he tears down cannot be rebuilt. The man he imprisons cannot be released.

Understand today that Jehovah your God is the one who is going ahead of you like a consuming (raging) (devouring) fire. He will wipe them out. Then he will use you to crush their power. You will take possession of their land and will quickly destroy them as Jehovah promised you.

While Elisha was still talking the king arrived and said: Jehovah brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?

Raise the flag to signal people to go to Zion. Take cover! Do not just stand there! I am bringing disaster and widespread destruction from the north.

Say this to Baruch: 'This is what Jehovah says: I will tear down what I have built. I will uproot what I have planted throughout the earth.

It is Jehovah's purpose to turn the wall of the daughter of Zion into waste. His line has been stretched out. He has not kept back his hand from destruction. He has sent sorrow on tower and wall. They have become feeble together.

Your hands formed me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

You left me, declares Jehovah. You turned your back on me. So I will stretch out my hand against you (use my power against you) and destroy you. I am tired of showing compassion to you.

Shout (wail) (howl) for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish. That day will be a day of trouble, devastation and desolation! It will be a day of darkness and gloom. Indeed that day will be a day of clouds and overcast skies.

Do not let your speech cause you to sin. Do not say to the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry because of what you say and destroy the work of your hands?

I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you.

Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is near! Destruction will come from the Almighty!

He brings sudden destruction upon the strong. Destruction comes upon the fortress.

The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.

It is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. (Isaiah 29:14)

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Only one is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you that you judge your neighbor?

Jehovah says: The whole earth will be ruined, although I will not entirely destroy it.

God will destroy any man who defiles the temple of God! For the temple of God is holy. You are that temple!