Quotes About Destruction

It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.

So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.

I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ramís horn.

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.