Bible Verses About Destruction of Cities

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

[Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noon-day.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

In the multitude of people [is] the king's honor: but in the want of people [is] the destruction of the prince.

Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it.

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man shall have come.

And it came to pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.

Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they repented not.

When Jesus heard [of it], he departed thence in a boat, into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard [of it], they followed him on foot out of the cities.

And he said to him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

[What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.

Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.

The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

And he said to them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore am I sent.

And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying towards Jerusalem.

And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.

Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent towards Sodom.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was on the cities that [were] round them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh; and let them keep food in the cities.

And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field which [was] around every city, he laid up in the same.