Quotes About Ruin

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.í

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ëWe are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.í”

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

ruin and misery lie in their wake,