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It is often depicted as a consequence of sin, disobedience, or divine judgment. The concept of ruin is prevalent throughout the Scriptures, illustrating both physical devastation and spiritual decay.<br><br><b>Old Testament References</b> <br>The Old Testament frequently addresses the theme of ruin, particularly in the context of divine judgment against nations and peoples who have turned away from God. In <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a>, Babylon is described as a city destined for ruin: "And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah." This passage highlights the inevitable downfall of a proud and sinful nation.<br><br>The book of Lamentations vividly portrays the ruin of Jerusalem following its destruction by the Babylonians. <a href="/lamentations/1.htm">Lamentations 1:1-2</a> captures the desolation: "How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a slave. She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks; among all her lovers, there is no one to comfort her."<br><br><b>New Testament References</b> <br>In the New Testament, ruin is often associated with spiritual destruction and the consequences of rejecting the gospel. Jesus warns of spiritual ruin in <a href="/matthew/7-26.htm">Matthew 7:26-27</a>, where He compares those who hear His words but do not act on them to a foolish man who built his house on sand: "The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse."<br><br>The Apostle Paul also speaks of ruin in a spiritual context. In <a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9</a>, he warns against the dangers of pursuing wealth: "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."<br><br><b>Theological Implications</b> <br>Ruin serves as a powerful reminder of the consequences of sin and the importance of obedience to God. It underscores the biblical principle that turning away from God leads to destruction, while faithfulness and repentance bring restoration and life. The theme of ruin also points to the hope of redemption, as God often promises restoration and renewal following judgment.<br><br><b>Symbolism and Imagery</b> <br>The imagery of ruin in the Bible is rich and varied, often involving metaphors of desolation, collapse, and waste. These images serve to convey the severity of divine judgment and the stark reality of life apart from God. The prophets frequently use vivid language to describe the ruins of cities and nations, emphasizing the totality of their destruction.<br><br><b>Practical Application</b> <br>Believers are called to heed the warnings of ruin in Scripture, recognizing the dangers of sin and the importance of living in accordance with God's will. The biblical accounts of ruin serve as cautionary tales, urging individuals and communities to seek righteousness and avoid the paths that lead to destruction. Through repentance and faith, believers can find hope and restoration in Christ, who offers salvation from spiritual ruin.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.<p>3. (<I>n.</I>) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.<p>4. (<I>n.</I>) The state of being decayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.<p>5. (<I>n.</I>) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.<p>6. (<I>n.</I>) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.<p>7. (<I>v. i.</I>) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">RUIN</span><p>roo'-in (haricah, etc.; rhegma): "Ruin," the translation of haricah (<a href="/amos/9-11.htm">Amos 9:11</a>; compare <a href="/acts/15-16.htm">Acts 15:16</a>, where the Revised Version (British and American) Greek text, ta katestrammena), and of a number of other Hebrew words: in <a href="/luke/6-49.htm">Luke 6:49</a> rhegma, "breakage," is used both in a literal sense (<a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm">Isaiah 23:13</a>; <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Isaiah 25:2</a>, of fallen buildings; Ezekiel 27:27; 31:13, of a state or people; Luke 6:49, of a house, etc.) and with a moral significance (<a href="/proverbs/26-28.htm">Proverbs 26:28</a>). the Revised Version margin correctly renders mikhshol in <a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30</a> "stumblingblock" (the King James Version "ruin"), and the Revised Version (British and American) in <a href="/ezekiel/21-15.htm">Ezekiel 21:15</a> "stumblings" (the King James Version "ruins"). The Revised Version (British and American) has "ruins" for the King James Version "desolations" in <a href="/ezra/9-9.htm">Ezra 9:9</a>, margin "waste places"; <a href="/psalms/74-3.htm">Psalm 74:3</a>; "in their ruins" for "with their mattocks" (<a href="/2_chronicles/34-6.htm">2 Chronicles 34:6</a>, margin " `with their axes.' The Hebrew is obscure"); "midst of the ruin" for "desolation" (<a href="/job/30-14.htm">Job 30:14</a>); "their ruin" for "their wickedness" (<a href="/proverbs/21-12.htm">Proverbs 21:12</a>). "Ruinous" is the translation of mappalah (<a href="/isaiah/17-1.htm">Isaiah 17:1</a>) and of natsah (<a href="/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm">Isaiah 37:26</a>).<br><br>W. L. Walker<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/4485.htm"><span class="l">4485. rhegma -- a fracture, hence a <b>ruin</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> a fracture, hence a <b>ruin</b>. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: rhegma Phonetic<br> Spelling: (hrayg'-mah) Short Definition: a <b>ruin</b> Definition: what is <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4485.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/4430.htm"><span class="l">4430. ptoma -- a fall, hence a misfortune, <b>ruin</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> a fall, hence a misfortune, <b>ruin</b>. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration:<br> ptoma Phonetic Spelling: (pto'-mah) Short Definition: a carcass, corpse <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4430.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3645.htm"><span class="l">3645. olothreuo -- to destroy, <b>ruin</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 3644, 3645. olothreuo. 3646 . to destroy, <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> Word Origin from olethreuo;<br> probably from olethros Definition to destroy, <b>ruin</b>. destroy. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3645.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3639.htm"><span class="l">3639. olethros -- destruction, death</span></a> <br><b>...</b> destruction, death. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: olethros Phonetic<br> Spelling: (ol'-eth-ros) Short Definition: <b>ruin</b>, doom, destruction <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3639.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/684.htm"><span class="l">684. apoleia -- destruction, loss</span></a> <br><b>...</b> destruction, loss. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apoleia Phonetic<br> Spelling: (ap-o'-li-a) Short Definition: destruction, <b>ruin</b>, loss Definition <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/684.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/2679.htm"><span class="l">2679. kataskapto -- to dig down</span></a> <br><b>...</b> undermine, tear down, <b>ruin</b>. From kata and skapto; to undermine, ie (by implication)<br> destroy -- dig down, <b>ruin</b>. see GREEK kata. see GREEK skapto. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2679.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/5351.htm"><span class="l">5351. phtheiro -- to destroy, corrupt, spoil</span></a> <br><b>...</b> of Speech: Verb Transliteration: phtheiro Phonetic Spelling: (fthi'-ro) Short<br> Definition: I corrupt, spoil, destroy Definition: I corrupt, spoil, destroy, <b>ruin</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5351.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/5356.htm"><span class="l">5356. phthora -- destruction, corruption</span></a> <br><b>...</b> corruption, destroy, perish. From phtheiro; decay, ie <b>Ruin</b> (spontaneous or inflicted,<br> literally or figuratively) -- corruption, destroy, perish. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5356.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/4431.htm"><span class="l">4431. ptosis -- a fall</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: ptosis Phonetic Spelling:<br> (pto'-sis) Short Definition: a falling, a fall Definition: a falling, a fall, <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4431.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/4933.htm"><span class="l">4933. suntereo -- to keep close, ie preserve</span></a> <br><b>...</b> From sun and tereo; to keep closely together, ie (by implication) to conserve (from<br> <b>ruin</b>); mentally, to remember (and obey) -- keep, observe, preserve. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4933.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/4288.htm"><span class="l">4288. mechittah -- terror, destruction, <b>ruin</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 4287, 4288. mechittah. 4289 . terror, destruction, <b>ruin</b>. Transliteration:<br> mechittah Phonetic Spelling: (mekh-it-taw') Short Definition: <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4288.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4658.htm"><span class="l">4658. mappeleth -- carcass, <b>ruin</b>, an overthrow</span></a><br><b>...</b> mappeleth. 4659 . carcass, <b>ruin</b>, an overthrow. Transliteration: mappeleth Phonetic<br> Spelling: (map-peh'-leth) Short Definition: fall. <b>...</b> carcass, fall, <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4658.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6365.htm"><span class="l">6365. pid -- <b>ruin</b>, disaster</span></a><br><b>...</b> 6364, 6365. pid. 6366 . <b>ruin</b>, disaster. Transliteration: pid Phonetic Spelling:<br> (peed) Short Definition: calamity. <b>...</b> destruction, <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6365.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7843.htm"><span class="l">7843. shachath -- perhaps to go to <b>ruin</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 7842, 7843. shachath. 7844 . perhaps to go to <b>ruin</b>. Transliteration: shachath<br> Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-khath') Short Definition: destroy. Word Origin a prim <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7843.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4596.htm"><span class="l">4596. mei -- perhaps <b>ruin</b> heap</span></a><br><b>...</b> 4595, 4596. mei. 4597 . perhaps <b>ruin</b> heap. Transliteration: mei Phonetic<br> Spelling: (meh-ee') Short Definition: <b>ruin</b>. Word Origin <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4596.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4654.htm"><span class="l">4654. mappalah -- a <b>ruin</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 4653, 4654. mappalah. 4654a . a <b>ruin</b>. Transliteration: mappalah Phonetic<br> Spelling: (map-paw-law') Short Definition: <b>ruin</b>. ruinous <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4654.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4654b.htm"><span class="l">4654b. mappelah -- a <b>ruin</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> mappelah. 4655 . a <b>ruin</b>. Transliteration: mappelah Short Definition: <b>ruin</b>. Word<br> Origin from naphal Definition a <b>ruin</b> NASB Word Usage <b>ruin</b> (2). 4654a, 4654b <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4654b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5754.htm"><span class="l">5754. avvah -- distortion, <b>ruin</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> distortion, <b>ruin</b>. Transliteration: avvah Phonetic Spelling: (av-vaw') Short Definition:<br> <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b> from avah Definition distortion, <b>ruin</b> NASB Word Usage <b>ruin</b> (3). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5754.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5856.htm"><span class="l">5856. i -- a <b>ruin</b>, heap of ruins</span></a><br><b>...</b> i. 5857 . a <b>ruin</b>, heap of ruins. Transliteration: i Phonetic Spelling: (ee) Short<br> Definition: ruins. <b>...</b> heap. From avah; a <b>ruin</b> (as if overturned) -- heap. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5856.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/8395.htm"><span class="l">8395. tebusah -- a treading down, <b>ruin</b>, downfall</span></a><br><b>...</b> 8394, 8395. tebusah. 8396 . a treading down, <b>ruin</b>, downfall. Transliteration:<br> tebusah Phonetic Spelling: (teb-oo-saw') Short Definition: destruction. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8395.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/of_antichrist_and_his_ruin_.htm"><span class="l">Of Antichrist, and his <b>Ruin</b>: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF ANTICHRIST, AND HIS <b>RUIN</b>: AND OF THE SLAYING THE WITNESSES. 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PART I The next pope, Benedict XI, wished to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter xvii the popes at.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/mans_ruin_and_gods_remedy.htm"><span class="l">Man's <b>Ruin</b> and God's Remedy</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Man's <b>Ruin</b> and God's Remedy. A Sermon <b>...</b> II. Having thus set before you the hard part<br> of the subject"THE SINNERS <b>RUIN</b>"I now come to preach of HIS REMEDY. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/mans ruin and gods remedy.htm</font><p><a href="/library/watts/the_psalms_and_hymns_of_isaac_watts/hymn_29_the_ruin_of.htm"><span class="l">The <b>Ruin</b> of Antichrist. Isa. 63:4-7.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS IN THREE BOOKS. HYMN 29 The <b>ruin</b> of Antichrist.<br> Isa. 63:4-7. CM The <b>ruin</b> of Antichrist. Isa.63:4-7. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../watts/the psalms and hymns of isaac watts/hymn 29 the ruin of.htm</font><p><a href="/library/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/lecture_vi_what_the_scriptures.htm"><span class="l">What the Scriptures Principally Teach: the <b>Ruin</b> and Recovery of <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> CATECHISM. Lecture VI. What The Scriptures Principally Teach: The <b>Ruin</b><br> And Recovery Of Man. Faith And Love Towards Christ. 2 Tim. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture vi what the scriptures.htm</font><p><a href="/library/arnobius/the_seven_books_of_arnobius_against_the_heathen/33_seeing_that_the_fear.htm"><span class="l">Seeing that the Fear of Death, that Is, the <b>Ruin</b> of Our Souls...</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Book II. 33 Seeing that the fear of death, that is, the <b>ruin</b> of our souls?<br> Seeing that the fear of death, that is, the <b>ruin</b> of <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/33 seeing that the fear.htm</font><p><a href="/library/scholasticus/the_ecclesiastical_history_of_scholasticus/chapter_xxxiv_admission_of_the_fugitive.htm"><span class="l">Admission of the Fugitive Goths into the Roman Territories, which <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter XXXIV."Admission of the Fugitive Goths into the Roman Territories, which<br> caused the Emperor's Overthrow, and eventually the <b>Ruin</b> of the Roman Empire. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chapter xxxiv admission of the fugitive.htm</font><p><a href="/library/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/section_10_by_a_like.htm"><span class="l">By a Like Simile, the Reasonableness of the Work of Redemption is <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> By a like simile, the reasonableness of the work of redemption is shewn. How Christ<br> wiped away our <b>ruin</b>, and provided its antidote by His own teaching. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/section 10 by a like.htm</font><p><a href="/library/augustine/city_of_god/chapter_34_of_gods_clemency_in.htm"><span class="l">Of God's Clemency in Moderating the <b>Ruin</b> of the City.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The City of God.Book I. Chapter 34."Of God's Clemency in Moderating the<br> <b>Ruin</b> of the City. And that you are yet alive is due to <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 34 of gods clemency in.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/r/ruin.htm"><span class="l"><b>Ruin</b> (135 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2. (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object,<br> or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the <b>ruin</b> of a ship or an <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/ruin.htm - 37k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/perdition.htm"><span class="l">Perdition (14 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; <b>ruin</b>; esp., the utter loss of the soul,<br> or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/perdition.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/w/wreck.htm"><span class="l">Wreck (1 Occurrence)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 3. (vt) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; <b>ruin</b>; as, the<br> wreck of a railroad train. <b>...</b> 10. (vi) To suffer wreck or <b>ruin</b>. 11. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/w/wreck.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/ruins.htm"><span class="l">Ruins (84 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course<br> which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the <b>ruin</b> of the hearers <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/ruins.htm - 31k</font><p><a href="/topical/o/overthrown.htm"><span class="l">Overthrown (44 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (WEY). Luke 11:17 And, knowing their thoughts, He said to them, "Every kingdom in<br> which civil war rages goes to <b>ruin</b>: family attacks family and is overthrown. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/o/overthrown.htm - 20k</font><p><a href="/topical/t/timnah.htm"><span class="l">Timnah (12 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Joshua 15:57). Tibna proposed by Conder, a <b>ruin</b> 8 miles West of Bethlehem,<br> seems too far N. (PEF, III, 53, Sh XVII). It is possible <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/t/timnah.htm - 13k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/rightfully.htm"><span class="l">Rightfully (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (DBY). Ezekiel 21:27 A <b>ruin</b>, a <b>ruin</b>, a <b>ruin</b>, will I make it; this also shall be<br> no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him. (See NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/rightfully.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/r/ruined.htm"><span class="l">Ruined (65 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> (imp. & pp) of <b>Ruin</b>. <b>...</b> 1 Corinthians 8:11 Why, your knowledge becomes the <b>ruin</b> of the<br> weak believer--your brother, for whom Christ died! (See NAS). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/r/ruined.htm - 25k</font><p><a href="/topical/o/overthrow.htm"><span class="l">Overthrow (48 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2. (vt) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a <b>ruin</b> of; to<br> destroy. 3. (n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; <b>ruin</b>. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/o/overthrow.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/z/zemaraim.htm"><span class="l">Zemaraim (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) A town of Benjamin (Joshua 18:22); now the<br><b>ruin</b>, rather two ruins, es-Sumrah, 4 miles north of Jericho. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/z/zemaraim.htm - 8k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Son-of-God.html">What does it mean that Jesus is the Son of God? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/talking-too-much.html">What does the Bible say about talking too much / being talkative? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Esther.html">Summary of the Book of Esther - Bible Survey | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/ruin.htm">Ruin: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Ruin (135 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/7-13.htm">Matthew 7:13</a></span><br />"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>, and many there are who enter by it;<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/6-49.htm">Luke 6:49</a></span><br />But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of that house was great."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/luke/11-17.htm">Luke 11:17</a></span><br />And, knowing their thoughts, He said to them, "Every kingdom in which civil war rages goes to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>: family attacks family and is overthrown.<br /><span class="source">(WEY NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/18-6.htm">Acts 18:6</a></span><br />But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/20-26.htm">Acts 20:26</a></span><br />Therefore I protest to you to-day that I am not responsible for the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of any one of you. <br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/3-16.htm">Romans 3:16</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Ruin</span> and misery mark their path; <br /><span class="source">(WEY DBY YLT RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/14-15.htm">Romans 14:15</a></span><br />If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> a man for whom Christ died.<br /><span class="source">(WEY RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/8-11.htm">1 Corinthians 8:11</a></span><br />Why, your knowledge becomes the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of the weak believer--your brother, for whom Christ died!<br /><span class="source">(WEY NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9</a></span><br />But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> and destruction.<br /><span class="source">(WEB WEY DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_timothy/2-14.htm">2 Timothy 2:14</a></span><br />Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of the hearers.<br /><span class="source">(WEY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_peter/3-16.htm">2 Peter 3:16</a></span><br />That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16</a></span><br />The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/18-17.htm">Revelation 18:17</a></span><br />For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/18-19.htm">Revelation 18:19</a></span><br />They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying,'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/11-15.htm">Numbers 11:15</a></span><br />If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/22-32.htm">Numbers 22:32</a></span><br />And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way thou walkest in is for <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> before me.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/24-20.htm">Numbers 24:20</a></span><br />He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/24-24.htm">Numbers 24:24</a></span><br />But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/11-4.htm">Deuteronomy 11:4</a></span><br />and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-16.htm">Deuteronomy 13:16</a></span><br />You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-20.htm">Deuteronomy 28:20</a></span><br />Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-63.htm">Deuteronomy 28:63</a></span><br />It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/15-14.htm">2 Samuel 15:14</a></span><br />David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/16-8.htm">2 Samuel 16:8</a></span><br />Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!"<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_kings/3-19.htm">2 Kings 3:19</a></span><br />You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/22-7.htm">2 Chronicles 22:7</a></span><br />But his coming to Joram was from God the complete <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of Ahaziah. And when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/28-23.htm">2 Chronicles 28:23</a></span><br />For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of him, and of all Israel.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_chronicles/34-11.htm">2 Chronicles 34:11</a></span><br />even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/6-13.htm">Esther 6:13</a></span><br />Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/esther/9-24.htm">Esther 9:24</a></span><br />because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/2-3.htm">Job 2:3</a></span><br />Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> him without cause."<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm">Job 22:19</a></span><br />The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">Job 30:14</a></span><br />As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> they roll themselves in.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">Job 30:24</a></span><br />Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,<br /><span class="source">(Root in JPS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/31-29.htm">Job 31:29</a></span><br />If I rejoice at the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,<br /><span class="source">(YLT RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalms 9:6</a></span><br />The enemy is overtaken by endless <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. <br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/35-4.htm">Psalms 35:4</a></span><br />Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> be turned back and confounded. <br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/35-8.htm">Psalms 35:8</a></span><br />Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/38-12.htm">Psalms 38:12</a></span><br />They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/40-14.htm">Psalms 40:14</a></span><br />Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. <br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/52-5.htm">Psalms 52:5</a></span><br />God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/55-11.htm">Psalms 55:11</a></span><br />Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/64-8.htm">Psalms 64:8</a></span><br />Their own tongues shall <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> them. All who see them will shake their heads. <br /><span class="source">(WEB RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/70-2.htm">Psalms 70:2</a></span><br />Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> be turned back in disgrace. <br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/73-18.htm">Psalms 73:18</a></span><br />Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS DBY RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/89-40.htm">Psalms 89:40</a></span><br />You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/140-11.htm">Psalms 140:11</a></span><br />Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>. <br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/146-9.htm">Psalms 146:9</a></span><br />The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/3-25.htm">Proverbs 3:25</a></span><br />Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/5-14.htm">Proverbs 5:14</a></span><br />I have come to the brink of utter <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>, in the midst of the gathered assembly."<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/10-8.htm">Proverbs 10:8</a></span><br />The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/10-10.htm">Proverbs 10:10</a></span><br />He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/10-14.htm">Proverbs 10:14</a></span><br />Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/10-15.htm">Proverbs 10:15</a></span><br />The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/10-29.htm">Proverbs 10:29</a></span><br />The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/12-12.htm">Proverbs 12:12</a></span><br />The wicked desireth the prey of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/13-3.htm">Proverbs 13:3</a></span><br />He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/13-15.htm">Proverbs 13:15</a></span><br />Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/14-28.htm">Proverbs 14:28</a></span><br />In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/18-7.htm">Proverbs 18:7</a></span><br />A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/18-24.htm">Proverbs 18:24</a></span><br />A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB DBY NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/19-3.htm">Proverbs 19:3</a></span><br />By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/19-13.htm">Proverbs 19:13</a></span><br />A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end. <br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/21-12.htm">Proverbs 21:12</a></span><br />The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/21-15.htm">Proverbs 21:15</a></span><br />It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS DBY YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/24-22.htm">Proverbs 24:22</a></span><br />For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of them both? <br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/26-28.htm">Proverbs 26:28</a></span><br />A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/31-3.htm">Proverbs 31:3</a></span><br />Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/7-16.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:16</a></span><br />Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you? <br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/songs/2-15.htm">Song of Songs 2:15</a></span><br />Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">Isaiah 1:28</a></span><br />But the <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. <br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/3-6.htm">Isaiah 3:6</a></span><br />Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> be under your hand."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/7-5.htm">Isaiah 7:5</a></span><br />Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/10-3.htm">Isaiah 10:3</a></span><br />And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? <br /><span class="source">(See JPS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a></span><br />The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Isaiah 15:5</a></span><br />My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/17-1.htm">Isaiah 17:1</a></span><br />The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm">Isaiah 23:13</a></span><br />Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/24-1.htm">Isaiah 24:1</a></span><br />See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/24-12.htm">Isaiah 24:12</a></span><br />In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Isaiah 25:2</a></span><br />For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a <span class="boldtext">ruin</span>, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14</a></span><br />The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/30-28.htm">Isaiah 30:28</a></span><br />His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to <span class="boldtext">ruin</span> will be in the jaws of the peoples.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/32-7.htm">Isaiah 32:7</a></span><br />The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Isaiah 47:11</a></span><br />Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/51-19.htm">Isaiah 51:19</a></span><br />These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/54-14.htm">Isaiah 54:14</a></span><br />In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. <br /><span class="source">(See JPS YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/54-16.htm">Isaiah 54:16</a></span><br />See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/59-7.htm">Isaiah 59:7</a></span><br />Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/60-18.htm">Isaiah 60:18</a></span><br />Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/64-11.htm">Isaiah 64:11</a></span><br />In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-6.htm">Jeremiah 7:6</a></span><br />If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm">Jeremiah 7:34</a></span><br />And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10</a></span><br />Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-9.htm">Jeremiah 13:9</a></span><br />Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-17.htm">Jeremiah 17:17</a></span><br />Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.<br /><span class="source">(See JPS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-7.htm">Jeremiah 19:7</a></span><br />I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm">Jeremiah 22:5</a></span><br />But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Jeremiah 25:9</a></span><br />behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11</a></span><br />This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><a href="/concordance/r/ruin2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/r/riusah.htm">Riusah</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/r/ruin.htm">Ruin</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div 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