Haller's Concordance: RUIN

• Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: Ex. 34:12
• Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin. Dt. 7:16
• Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin. Judg. 2:3
• And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon, and to all his house. Judg. 8:27
• And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword. 2 Ki. 15:14
• Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 2 Par. 28:23
• Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. Jud. 13:25
• Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us. Esther 14:11
• Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue. Ps. 52:4
• For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress. Pr. 12:13
• The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death. Pr. 13:14
• The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death. Pr. 14:27
• He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished. Pr. 17:5
• He that studieth discords, loveth quarrels: and he that exalteth his door, seeketh ruin. Pr. 17:19
• The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul. Pr. 18:7
• It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract. Pr. 20:25
• When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice: Pr. 24:17
• For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both? Pr. 24:22
• A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin. Pr. 26:28
• Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath. Pr. 29:8
• For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath of his high spirits is his ruin. Sir. 1:28
• Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin. Sir. 5:15
• Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be. Sir. 9:16
• An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. Sir. 10:3
• Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. Sir. 10:15
• Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou hearest: for thou walkest in danger of thy ruin. Sir. 13:16
• Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin. Sir. 31:6
• Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul. Sir. 32:25
• For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand. Isa. 3:6
• And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Isa. 8:14
• Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people, the Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have, brought it to ruin. Isa. 23:13
• For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever. Isa. 25:2
• Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin. Isa. 26:19
• The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that have rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished. Bar. 4:31
• For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation. Bar. 4:33
• Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. Ezec. 18:30
• Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin. Ezec. 27:27
• And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own life, in the day of their ruin. Ezec. 32:10
• The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God. Osee 9:8
• Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation. Abd. 1:13
• I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord. Soph. 1:3
• And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it is given into the hands of the enemies? 1 Ma. 2:7
• But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house was great. Lk. 6:49