Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.

Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, [to] all [that the] enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.

You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.

The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

The enemies are destroyed [in] ruins forever, and you have uprooted [their] cities; their very memory has perished.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

O God, [the] nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, who makes ruins on the earth;

For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.

But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days; but I will trust in You.

Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.

Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;

Engulfing ruin, is in her midst, And there depart not from her broadway, oppression and deceit.

Show me favour, O God, Show me favour, For, in thee, hath my soul sought refuge, - And, in the shadow of thy wings, will I seek refuge, Until the storm of ruin pass by.

Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?

O ruined daughter of Babylon, - how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

who redeems your life from ruin; who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin?

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

Their table shall be before them for a snare, for a retribution, for a cause of ruin.

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin.