Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

O Lord, how long are you going to just stand there and watch this? Rescue me from their destructive attacks; guard my life from the young lions!

See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies –

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.

the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon.

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?

The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,