"bring devastation" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to cause great destruction or damage. Example: The hurricane's powerful winds and heavy rain brought devastation to the coastal town, leaving many homes destroyed and families displaced.
The week's rain totals – verging on 50in – could bring devastation that is "unprecedented … unknown and beyond anything experienced", according to the National Weather Service.
But while the heavy rains are ceasing, the effects of Harvey continue to bring devastation: catastrophic flooding is still in evidence across Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and southwestern Louisiana.
But its lethality has been used in the past to bring devastation to civilian neighborhoods, most famously by the Russians during the siege of the Chechen capital of Grozny over a decade ago, where thousands of civilians were killed and hundreds of buildings reduced to rubble.
The lapses were so egregious that it prompted our recent vote to authorize an independent commission to conduct a more far-reaching inquiry into how we could have done better and how we must do better in the future, because there is no longer any question as to the scope of the threat and the ability and the intent of terrorist groups to bring devastation to our soil.
Cities across America have good reason to expect that increasingly severe weather events could bring devastation.
Where the oil spill brought resentment, Hurricane Katrina brought devastation.
Giant Tunnocks marshmallow man brings devastation to inner city areas.
The judge said Gurpinar had brought devastation to Leroy's family.
"The Arabs should consider him a saint, but he brought devastation to the Kurds," Mr. Youssef said.
They are also responding to widespread criticism that they are only bringing devastation to Sunni towns".
They feel abandoned by the international community, which had promised peace talks in a week that has brought devastation instead.
