“It is all one! ¹  That is why I say, ²  ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

He makes nations great, ¹  and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses ²  them. ³ 

His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; ¹  his tongue injures and destroys. ² 

The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

The integrity of the upright guides them, ¹  but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them. ² 

The one who ¹  is slack ²  in his work is a brother ³  to one who destroys. ⁴ 

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, ¹  whoever does it destroys his own life. ² 

With his speech ¹  the godless person ²  destroys ³  his neighbor, but by knowledge ⁴  the righteous will be delivered.

When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he ¹  is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

The one who robs ¹  his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion ²  to the one ³  who destroys.

I have received a distressing message: ¹  “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” ² 

The one who loves his life ¹  destroys ²  it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards ³  it for eternal life.

If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. ¹  But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing ²  of abominations will come ³  one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”

“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, ¹  he will let the servant ²  go free ³  as compensation for the eye.

but who pays back those who hate ¹  him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore ²  those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

Like a lion that has come up from its lair ¹  the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. ²  He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

Sell your possessions ¹  and give to the poor. ²  Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven ³  that never decreases, ⁴  where no thief approaches and no moth ⁵  destroys.

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ¹  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ²  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.