Quotes About Destruction

I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.í

ëAfter that,í declares the LORD, ëI will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.í

For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.í

I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.í”

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.í”

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?í

In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.í”

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëDrink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.í

Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.í”

“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëZion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.í

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

this is what the LORD says: ëI will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.í”