Quotes About Destruction

the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

So the LORD will cut off Israelís head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyriaís stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylonís time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.