Destruction

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Sef destruction

Why would people choose to pursue behavior that are self destructive or self sabotaging.


Behavior is said to be Self-sabotaging when it creates problems in daily life and interferes with long-standing goals. Besides the obvious forms of self-destruction like eating disorders, alcohol use disorder, substance use disorders, sex addiction, self-injury, body-focused repetitive behavior and suicide attempts, common self-sabotaging behaviors include procrastination, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting.

Intense feelings of self-loathing or self-hatred can produce a proclivity to self-harm. This may involve a conscious and wilful intent to injure oneself, or more subconscious process or pschosis.

A well known way to avoid or reverse destructive behaviours in your relationship is to become self aware and recognize why you might engage in them yourself. According to Dr. Randi Gunther, to break out of self-destructive patterns, “you must be willing to look at them without defensiveness or negative self-judgment.”

National destruction

Why would a whole society or nation choose a path of self destruction?

Biblical destruction

Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.


Hosea 7:13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.


Micah 2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy[1] you, even with a sore destruction. 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

The word for destroy in verse 10 of Micah 2 is not from shamad ShinMemDalet[2] nor Abad AlefBeitDelat[3] nor charam ChetReishMem.[4] which are the most common Hebrew words translated destroy. There are many words translated destroy such as machah[5], shachath[6], caphah[7], mashchiyth [8], karath [9], shabar[10], quwr [11], huwm[12], chabal[13], but is from a different chabal[1].

Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.


Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.


Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:



1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.


2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets[14] also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.


2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.


1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 02254 חָבַל‎ chabal [khaw-bal’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-286a, BDB-287a] [{See TWOT on 592 }] [{See TWOT on 593 }] [{See TWOT on 594 }] [{See TWOT on 595 }] AV-destroy 7, take a pledge 5, pledge 5, bands 2, brought forth 2, at all 1, corrupt 1, corruptly 1, offend 1, spoil 1, travaileth 1, very 1, withholden 1; 29
    1) to bind
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to bind
    2) to take a pledge, lay to pledge
    2a) (Qal) to hold by a pledge, take in pledge, hold in pledge
    2b) (Niphal) to give a pledge, become pledged
    3) to destroy, spoil, deal corruptly, offend
    3a) (Qal) to spoil, corrupt, offend
    3b) (Niphal) to be ruined
    3c) (Piel) to destroy, ruin
    3d) (Pual) to be ruined, be broken
    4) to bring forth, travail
    4a) (Piel) to writhe, twist, travail
  2. ↑ 08045 שָׁמַד‎ shamad ShinMemDalet [shaw-mad’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-1029a] [{See TWOT on 2406 }] AV-destroy 83, destruction 1, overthrown 1, perished 1, misc 4; 90
    1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated
    1a) (Niphal)
    1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated
    1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated
    1b) (Hiphil)
    1b1) to annihilate, exterminate
    1b2) to destroy
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
    • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
  3. ↑ 06 אָבַד‎ ‘abad [aw-bad’] AlefBeitDalet a primitive root; v; [BDB-1a] [{See TWOT on 2 }] AV-perish 98, destroy 62, lose 10, fail 2, surely 2, utterly 2, broken 1, destruction 1, escape 1, flee 1, spendeth 1, take 1, undone 1, void 1; 184
    1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
    1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
    1a3) be lost, strayed
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
    1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
    1b3) cause to stray, lose
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to destroy, put to death
    1c1a) of divine judgment
    1c2) object name of kings (fig.)
    • א Alef Father-Son- begin- The Paradox: God and Man - (ox bull) [strength, leader, first] (Numeric value: 1)
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
  4. ↑ 02763 ^םרח^ charam \@khaw-ram’\@ a primitive root ChetReishMem; v; AV-destroy 34, utterly 10, devote 2, accursed 1, consecrate 1, forfeited 1, flat nose 1, utterly to make away 1, slay 1; 52 and is also a noun 02764 ^םרח^ cherem
    1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
    1a) (Hiphil)
    1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban
    1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction
    1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy
    1b) (Hophal)
    1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction
    1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited
    1b3) to be completely destroyed
    2) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)
    2a) (Qal) to mutilate
    2b) (Hiphil) to divide
    • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
  5. ↑ 04229 מָחָה‎ machah [maw-khaw’] a primitive root MemChetHey; v; [BDB-562a, BDB-562b] [{See TWOT on 1178 }] [{See TWOT on 1179 }] [{See TWOT on 1181 @@ "1181c" }] AV-(blot, put, etc) … out 17, destroy 6, wipe 4, blot 3, wipe away 2, abolished 1, marrow 1, reach 1, utterly 1; 36
    1) to wipe, wipe out
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to wipe
    1a2) to blot out, obliterate
    1a3) to blot out, exterminate
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be wiped out
    1b2) to be blotted out
    1b3) to be exterminated
    1c) (Hiphil) to blot out (from memory)
    2) (Qal) to strike
    3) (Pual) full of marrow (participle)
  6. ↑ 07843 ^תחשׁ^ shachath \@shaw-khath’\@ a primitive root;ShinChetTav with the addition of other letters a word meaning will change v; {See TWOT on 2370} AV-destroy 96, corrupt 22, mar 7, destroyer 3, corrupters 2, waster 2, spoilers 2, battered 1, corruptly 1, misc 11; 147
    1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay
    1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to spoil, ruin
    1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy
    1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally)
    1c3) destroyer (participle)
    1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
    • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
  7. ↑ 05595 סָפָה‎ caphah [saw-faw’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-705a] [{See TWOT on 1531 }] AV-consume 6, destroy 5, add 3, perish 2, augment 1, heap 1, joined 1, put 1; 20
    1) to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to be snatched away
    1a2) to sweep or snatch away
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be swept away, be destroyed
    1b2) to be caught up, be captured
    1c) (Hiphil) to catch up, gather
  8. ↑ 04889 מַשְׁחִית‎ mashchiyth [mash-kheeth’] from 07843; n m; [BDB-1008b] [{See TWOT on 2370 @@ "2370a" }] AV-destroy 4, corruption 2, destruction 2, set a trap 1, destroying 1, utterly 1; 11
    1) ruin, destruction
  9. ↑ 03772 ^תרכ^ karath \@kaw-rath’\@ a primitive root KafReishTav; v; AV-cut off 145, make 85, cut down 23, cut 9, fail 6, destroy 4, want 3, covenanted 2, hew 2, misc 9; 288
    1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to cut off
    1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead
    1a2) to cut down
    1a3) to hew
    1a4) to cut or make a covenant
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be cut off
    1b2) to be cut down
    1b3) to be chewed
    1b4) to be cut off, fail
    1c) (Pual)
    1c1) to be cut off
    1c2) to be cut down
    1d) (Hiphil)
    1d1) to cut off
    1d2) to cut off, destroy
    1d3) to cut down, destroy
    1d4) to take away
    1d5) to permit to perish
    1e) (Hophal) cut off
    • כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
    • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
  10. ↑ 07665 שָׁבַר‎ ShinBeitReish shabar [shaw-bar’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-990b] [{See TWOT on 2321 }] AV-break 115, destroy 9, break in pieces 8, break down 4, hurt 3, torn 2, give birth 1, crush 1, quench 1, misc 6; 150
    1) to break, break in pieces
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench
    1a2) to break, rupture (fig)
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked
    1b2) to be broken, be crushed (fig)
    1c) (Piel) to shatter, break
    1d) (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth
    1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered
    • See 07663, inspect, examine; 07664, hope; 07665, break... torn, give birth 07666,to buy; 07667, breech; 07668 brake out; ShinBeitReish(שָׁבַר)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  11. ↑ 06979 קוּר‎ quwr [koor] a primitive root; v; [BDB-881a, BDB-903a] [{See TWOT on 2004 }] [{See TWOT on 2077 }] AV-dig 2, cast out 2, destroy 1, break down 1; 6
    1) (Qal) to bore, dig, dig for water
    2) to be cold
    2a) (Hiphil) to make or keep cool
    3) (Pilpel) destroy, break down
  12. ↑ 01949 הוּם‎ huwm [hoom] a primitive root [compare 02000]; v; [BDB-223a] [{See TWOT on 486 }] AV-rang again 2, make a noise 2, moved 1, destroy 1; 6
    1) to distract, ring again, make a (great) noise, murmur, roar, discomfit, be moved
    1a) (Qal) to discomfit
    1b) (Niphal) to be in a stir
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to murmur
    1c2) to show disquietude
  13. ↑ 02255 חֲבַל‎ chabal (Aramaic) [khab-al’] corresponding to 02254 chabal ; v; [BDB-1091b] [{See TWOT on 2716 }] AV-destroy 5, hurt 1; 6
    1) to hurt, destroy
    1a) (Pael) to hurt, destroy
    1b) (Ithpael) to be destroyed
  14. ↑ Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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