The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the LORD of Armies, on the whole earth.
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of the LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
"Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
Likewise Holofernes said to her, "God has done well to send you before the sons of your people, so that strength might be in our hands and destruction be on those who regard my lord lightly.
As the Lord lives, who has preserved me in the path that I took, my attractiveness has deceived him to his destruction, and yet he did not commit sin with me, to defile and shame me."
For now is the time to help your inheritance and to execute your purposes for the destruction of the enemies who have risen against us."
Then they decreed the destruction of all flesh, of all who did not obey the commandment of his mouth.
Yet he cast down their barriers and cut down their sacred groves; for he had decreed the destruction of all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and so that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.
And they cried to the God of Israel, all with one consent earnestly, so that he would not give over their children as prey and their wives for a spoil and the cities of their inheritance to destruction and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, for the nations to rejoice over them.
For now we have no helper, but God has sold us into their hands, so that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.
My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."
But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."
But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.