20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Know therefore today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him and he said, “Behold, this evil is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

“Lift up a standard toward Zion!
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing evil from the north,
And great destruction.

Thus you are to say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land.”

The Lord determined to destroy
The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from destroying,
And He has caused rampart and wall to lament;
They have languished together.

‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether,
And would You destroy me?

“You who have forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,
“You keep going backward.
So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am tired of relenting!

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

A day of wrath is that day,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of destruction and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,

Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong,
So that destruction comes upon the fortress.

“The statutes of Omri
And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed;
And in their devices you walk.
Therefore I will give you up for destruction
And your inhabitants for derision,
And you will bear the reproach of My people.”

For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?

For thus says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.