'Ruins' in the Bible
The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.
Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.
Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)
Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!
A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.
I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.
Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.