Quotes about Destruction
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
- Nahum 1:8
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
- Nahum 1:10
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Nahum 1:14
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
- Nahum 2:6
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
- Nahum 2:13
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
- Nahum 3:3
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Nahum 3:12
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
- Nahum 3:15
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
- Nahum 3:16
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
- Nahum 3:17
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- Habakkuk 1:3
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- Habakkuk 2:17