Quotes about Destruction
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
— Nahum 1:6
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