Ruin

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.

For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

…to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”

Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’

A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’

A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’

…therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

…ruin and misery lie in their wake,

Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.