12 Bible Verses about People Destroying Foreign Nations

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;

Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.

Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I made it,'

Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'

Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night-- how you have been destroyed!-- would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.