Quotes About Destruction

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a manís hope.

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of Godís mouth will carry him away.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

ëSurely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.í

They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!