destruction
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OT Pseudepigrapha
Cursed is he who looks to and is eager for the destruction of what is not his.
For constant meetings, even though the ungodly deed be not wrought, are to them an irremediable disease, and to us a destruction of Beliar and an eternal reproach.
And all who hate you shall rejoice at your destruction.
And the sword is the mother of seven evils. First the mind conceiveth through Beliar, and first there is bloodshed; secondly ruin; thirdly, tribulation; fourthly, exile; fifthly, dearth; sixthly, panic; seventhly, destruction.
And his latter end was destruction, and he went to hell. For he who digs a pit for his brother shall fall into it; and he who sets up traps shall be caught in them.
'Yes,' he replied, 'these are the men I mean; for to watch for men's destruction is an unholy thing.
And although she saw the destruction of her seven children and the many and varied forms of their torments, the noble mother willingly surrendered them through faith in God. 20 For she beheld in her own mind, even as it had been cunning advocates in a council-chamber, nature, and parenthood, and mother-love, and her children on the rack, and it was as if she, the mother, having the choice between two votes in the case of her children, one for their death and one to save them alive, thereupon regarded not the saving of her seven sons for a little time, but, as a true daughter of Abraham, called to mind his God-fearing courage.
For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on His immortal pinions:
And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who is corrupted is adorned: and the who corrupts and is corrupted;