20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

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

Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

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

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

Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith 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The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Howl ye; 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 wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, 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 strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye 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.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: 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 art thou that judgest another?

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

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