You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.

But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

Deliver Me from My Enemies

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me;

But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!

God Will Judge with Equity

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.

Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.

He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.

who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them,

The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.

O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!

And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.

The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.