ruin <2CH28 -23> For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the {ruin} of him, and of all Israel. ruin Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to {ruin}. ruin For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the {ruin} of them both? ruin A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh {ruin}. ruin When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this {ruin} [be] under thy hand: ruin Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to {ruin}. ruin For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a {ruin}: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. ruin Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your {ruin}. ruin Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that [are] in thee, and in all thy company which [is] in the midst of thee, shall fall in to the midst of the seas in the day of thy {ruin}. ruin Upon his {ruin} shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: ruin But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the {ruin} of that house was great. ~~~~~~