20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto you.

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?

Set up the standard toward Zion: take refuge, delay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Thus shall you say unto him, The LORD says thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Your hands have made me and fashioned me together totally; yet you do destroy me.

You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary of relenting.

Wail you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.