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

The Lord says, “I will cause a destructive wind to blow against Babylon and the people who inhabit Babylonia.

For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”

“Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

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!

The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.

A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.

For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out, “Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the Lord has made me an object of continual insults and derision.

Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder!

So I say: “Don’t look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don’t try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.”

The beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

Then the Lord said, “This means destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.

Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.