6 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into [the] hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction [is] as vast as the sea; who can heal you?

Verse ConceptsSeaVirginLikeningUnique EventsDestruction Of JerusalemThings Like The SeaHuman ComfortLikening ThingsNo HealingSea, Metaphorical ReferencesHealing And Comfort

Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Verse ConceptsDestructionPitfalls

Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelBereavement, Expression OfTearsI Mourn Catastrophe

[The] hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

Bible Theasaurus

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