Quotes about Devastation

With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.