Quotes About Destruction

“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ëWho was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.í”

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.

All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.í”

I will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.

He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.

I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the crowds of Thebes.

I will set fire to Egypt, Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be split open, and Memphis will face daily distress.

The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earthís ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëOn the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.