Proverbs 1:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

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  • Prov 3:25-26 : 25 Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers: 26 For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.
  • Prov 10:24-25 : 24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire. 25 When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Luke 21:23-26 : 23 It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people. 24 And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete. 25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; 26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net: 35 For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.
  • Rom 2:9 : 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
  • 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 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them. 23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking. 24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them. 25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents. 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. 27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

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    26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

  • Prov 3:25
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    25 Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

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    47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

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    25 Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

  • Job 5:21-22
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    21 He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

    22 You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

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    5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

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    5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • Jer 30:23
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    23 See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Isa 24:17-18
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    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

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  • Jer 23:19
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    19 See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

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    11 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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    20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

    21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

  • Prov 24:22
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    22 For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Job 30:14-15
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    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

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  • Job 15:21
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    21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

  • Isa 13:6
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    6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

  • Isa 21:1
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    25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

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    21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

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    18 Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

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    24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

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    4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.