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(page 8) Bible Verses About Destruction
668 Scriptures on Destruction

Jeremiah 5:18

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.

Jeremiah 51:8

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Jeremiah 6:1

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:21

For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

Jeremiah 6:5

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:21

For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

Jeremiah 9:19

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

Job 10:8

Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

Job 12:23

Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

Job 12:6

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

Job 15:21

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

Job 18:12

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

Job 20:26

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

Job 2:3

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

Job 26:6

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

Job 28:22

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

Job 29:13

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

Job 30:12

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

Job 30:13

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

Job 31:12

It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

Job 31:3

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

Job 3:3

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

Job 33:18

To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

Job 34:24

He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

Job 37:20

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

Job 38:27

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Job 40:12

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Job 4:7

Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

Job 4:9

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Job 5:22

You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

Job 6:18

The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

Joel 1:11

The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

Joel 1:15

Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

Joel 2:3

Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

Joel 3:19

Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

John 10:28

And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

John 11:50

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

John 17:12

While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

John 2:19

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

John 3:16

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

Jonah 1:14

So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

Jonah 1:6

And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

Jonah 3:9

Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

Jonah 4:7

But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.


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