Quotes about Rubble
idols get their power because humans, in sinning, give it to them. Deal with sin, and the idols are reduced to a tawdry heap of rubble. Deal with sin, and the world will glorify God.
— NT Wright
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
— Leviticus 26:31
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
— 2 Kings 19:25
I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.
— Ezra 6:11
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
— Nehemiah 4:10
he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
— Job 15:28
A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
— Psalm 79:1
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
— Isaiah 24:12
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.
— Isaiah 25:2
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
— Isaiah 37:26
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
— Jeremiah 9:11
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
— Jeremiah 51:37