Bible Verses About Creation and Destruction

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.