Quotes about Ruins
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
- Oscar Wilde
Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”
- Exodus 10:7
And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
- Deuteronomy 13:16
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- Joshua 8:28
Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6
and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
- Nehemiah 2:3
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
- Nehemiah 2:17
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- Job 3:14
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
- Job 30:14
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
- Psalm 74:3
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Psalm 102:6
Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.
- Song of Solomon 2:15