19 Bible Verses about Things Stripped

The Lord's shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says, "Majestic!"

The Elamites picked up the quiver, and came with chariots and horsemen; the men of Kir prepared the shield.

Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

All his retinue -- his attendants and his troops -- I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

and say to them, 'This is what the Lord says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath -- it will not be sheathed again!'

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth's surface.

The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the Lord.

So Abraham's servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

He called out loudly as follows: 'Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!

They have destroyed our vines; they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

"I will turn Samaria into a heap of ruins in an open field -- vineyards will be planted there! I will tumble the rubble of her stone walls down into the valley, and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.

Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.