'Destruction' in the Bible

Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.

The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.

My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.

Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.

And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.

Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.

News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.