20 Bible Verses about God Destroying

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Therefore shalt thou know this day, that the LORD thy God goeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"

Set up the token in Zion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north.

Therefore tell him, O Jeremiah, that the LORD sayeth thus: Behold; The thing that I have builded, will I break down again, and root out the thing, that I have planted, yea this whole land.

{Khet} The LORD thought to break down the walls of the daughter Zion; he spread out his line, and drew not in his hand, till he had destroyed them. Therefore mourn the turrets and the broken walls together.

"Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me altogether round about. Wilt thou then destroy me suddenly?

seeing thou goest from me and turnest backward? Sayeth the LORD: Therefore I will stretch out mine hand against thee, to destroy thee, and I will not be entreated.

Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty.

For that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of utter destruction and misery, a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and stormy day,

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.

Moreover, I will make thee waste and abhorred before all the Heathen that dwell about thee, and in the sight of all them that go by thee:

Alas, alas for this day. And why? the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty.

He raiseth destruction upon the mighty people, and bringeth down the stronghold.

Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent."

Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Let not the body be applied unto fornication, but unto the Lord, and the Lord unto the body.

There is one law giver, which is able to save and to destroy. What art thou that judgest another man?

For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.

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