Isaiah 47:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

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  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.
  • Exod 12:29-30 : 29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle. 30 Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
  • Neh 4:11 : 11 And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Jer 51:39-42 : 39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord. 40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together. 41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations! 42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
  • Dan 5:25-30 : 25 And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. 26 This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. 27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. 28 Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. 30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
  • Matt 18:34 : 34 And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
  • Luke 12:59 : 59 I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.

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