His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in what he undertakes. He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”

Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’”

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children – this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

God sent an angel to ravage Jerusalem. As he was doing so, the Lord watched and relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! Stop now!” Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”