64 occurrences in 13 translations

'Destruction' in the Bible

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristKissingAnger Of JesusKissesBlessed Through GodSpeed Of God's AngerTrustPurity

Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentRebellion, Against GodFruits Of SinDriven Away By GodFound GuiltyRebellion against GodGuilt

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

Verse ConceptsOblivionEternal JudgementBlotted OutGod Judges The WickedGod Requite Them!rebuking

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementBlotted Outremembrancefinishing

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

Verse ConceptsNosesSmokeNostrilsFire Emanating From Godsmoking

Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodWitnesses, FalseOvercoming EnemiesSurrenderProtection From Enemiesbreathing

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

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitCreatures Returning To DustNot Praising Goddust

For without cause they hid their net for me;Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.

Verse ConceptsNetsSnares Laid for PeopleDigging PitsMan Trapping

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

Verse ConceptsLack Of ExpectationLet Evil Reboundsurprises

LORD, how long will you just watch? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from these young lions.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernLionsRescueProlonged AfflictionsDeliverance From LionsBefore God Acts

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,And they devise treachery all day long.

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NaturePersecution, Forms OfEvil PlansTrapCharacter Of WickedMan TrappingAll DayAttempting To Kill Me

Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

Verse ConceptsConfusiondisgraceAttempting To Kill MeHurtDisappointmenthurting

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

Verse ConceptsSheepKilling The InnocentAll Day

Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

Verse ConceptsWorking For The Lord

Like a sharpened razor,your tongue devises destruction,working treachery.

Verse ConceptsTongueFalsehoodSpeaking, EvilSharpnessRazors

Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

Verse ConceptsTongueDeceitful TonguesLoving Evil

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthConfusionTowersViolenceConquestDisharmonyPuzzlementLanguages ConfusedLanguages SeparatedThe TongueConflictSpeechtransition

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

Verse ConceptsWallsWalled TownsLabour Day And NightAbuse

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,For my soul takes refuge in You;And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refugeUntil destruction passes by.

Verse ConceptsDisastersCavesdefence, divineGuardiansMusicOppression, God's Attitude ToRefugeShadowsWingsProtection, From GodTrusting In GodGod's WingsCaves As Places Of RefugeProtection From Danger

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Verse ConceptsGod Saving From EnemiesPsalm InterjectionsGod's Truthrebukingharassment

Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristHatredInjustice, Nature And Source OfRestitutionProphecies Concerning ChristMany EnemiesNumber Of HairsHating Without A CauseReasons Why The World Hates ChristiansMessianic PropheciesHateHairEnemy Attackshaters

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

Verse ConceptsTablesGod Trapping

Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

Let my adversaries be ashamed and consumed; let those who seek my destruction be covered with scorn and disgrace.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

Moreover, my tongue will speak all day about your justice; for those who seek my destruction will be utterly humiliated. Solomonic

Verse ConceptsConfusionTongueHurt

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessUnfaithfulness, To God

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

Verse ConceptsFliesFrogsInsectsbugs

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

Verse ConceptsSycamoresDestroying VineyardsFrostCold Weather

Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

Verse ConceptsLightning

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceHow Death Is InevitableNot SparingDeath Of The Wicked

He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

Verse ConceptsFirstbornDeath Of The Firstbornmanhood

The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

Verse ConceptsHatredEternal JudgementHating Godhaters

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGod's Faithfulness

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Verse ConceptsMortalitySanctity Of LifeCreatures Returning To Dust

For he will deliver you from [the] snare of [the] fowler, from [the] plague of destruction.

Verse ConceptsHuntingSatan, Compared With AnimalsEscaping The TrapDisease

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDarkness Of Evilvampires

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Verse ConceptsPitsDigging PitsPit Used As TrapsStaying Strong During Hard Times

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,One which devises mischief by decree?

Verse ConceptsMischiefInjusticecorruption

He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarming Trees

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofCalf worshipMoses, Significance OfPlaguesGod Might Kill His PeopleAction Lest God Be Angry

Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them from certain destruction.

Verse ConceptsOppression, God's Attitude ToRescue

The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Warfare, ArmourWaitingPeople WaitingAttempting To Kill Me

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,happy is the one who pays you backwhat you have done to us.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCondemnation Of BabylonRejoicing Over JusticeRepaying Evil For EvilLet Evil Rebound

Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

Verse ConceptsPursuing ViolenceFreedom From Violencerelentless

Bible Theasaurus

Consumption (21 instances)
Demolition (1 instance)
Devastation (35 instances)
Dissolution (5 instances)

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