Quotes About Destruction

A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zionís nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.