20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"

Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.

Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land.

The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you-- I am weary of relenting.

Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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

Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people."

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."

"Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.