'Ruin' in the Bible

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.

And he looked [at] Amalek, {uttered} his oracle, and said, "Amalek [is] first of [the] nations, but his future [will be] forever ruin."

The ships [will come] from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he [will be] forever ruin."

so that you [do] not {ruin yourselves} and make for yourselves a divine image [in] a form of any image, a replica of male or female,

And the redeemer said, "I am not able to redeem for myself, lest I ruin my inheritance. You redeem for yourself my kinsman-redemption, for I am not able to redeem [it]."

and you shall defeat every fortified city, every choice city, and you shall fell every good tree. All of the springs of water you shall stop up, and every tract of good land you shall ruin with the stones."

Is not disaster for [the] evil one and ruin for [the] workers of mischief?

"If I have rejoiced at [the] ruin of [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--

The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.

But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.

I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation."

A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but [to] the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.

The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor [is] their poverty.

A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin [belongs] to {evildoers}.

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

The righteous observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked to ruin.

For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of {both of them}, who knows?

A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.

By justice a king gives stability [to] a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it.

Dead flies cause a bad smell [and] ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Look [at] the land of the Chaldeans! {This people no longer exists. Assyria destined} it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin.

Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

We hear songs from the {edge} of the earth: "Glory to the righteous [one]!" But I say, "Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! [The] treacherous ones deal treacherously, and [the] treacherous ones deal treacherously [with] treachery!"

For you have {made} [the] city heap, [the] fortified city a ruin, [the] palace of foreigners {is no longer} a city; it will {never} be rebuilt.

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

And evil shall come upon you, you will not know; it will be on the lookout for her. And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to {avert} it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know.

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror, your cities will go to ruin {without} inhabitant.

"Thus says Yahweh: 'So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

And I will lay waste the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword {before} their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth.

Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, {without} an inhabitant in them.

A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also this has not [ever] happened; [it will remain] until the coming of [the one] [to] whom the judgment belongs and I have given it [to him].'

therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "so I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it [both] human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword.

And I will make the mountain of Seir into desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it [both] [he who is] crossing over and [he who is] returning.

{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.

I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end," {declares} Yahweh.

[Alas for those] who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.