'Destruction' in the Bible

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."

[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"

The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

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

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both -- who knows?

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction."

Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

"Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;

Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.