Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Destruction and Death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.’

The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

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

You will not be afraid of sudden disaster, or when destruction overtakes the wicked;

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

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.

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.