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you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. (Psalms 52, 2)
Be merdiful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. (Psalms 57, 1)
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. (Psalms 84, 3)
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. (Psalms 91, 6)
that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever, (Psalms 92, 7)
he sent forth his word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction. (Psalms 107, 20)
to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals, (1 Maccabees 1, 47)
Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah, (1 Maccabees 1, 54)
And Mattathias and his friends went about and tore down the altars; (1 Maccabees 2, 45)
Now Judas and his brothers saw that misfortunes had increased and that the forces were encamped in their territory. They also learned what the king had commanded to do to the people to cause their final destruction. (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
But they said to one another, "Let us repair the destruction of our people, and fight for our people and the sanctuary." (1 Maccabees 3, 43)
Fill them with cowardice; melt the boldness of their strength; let them tremble in their destruction. (1 Maccabees 4, 32)