Proverbs 1:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    When your terror comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    When your fear{H6343} cometh{H935} as a storm,{H5492} And your calamity{H343} cometh{H857} on as a whirlwind;{H5492} When distress{H6869} and anguish{H6695} come{H935} upon you.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    When your fear{H6343} cometh{H935}{(H8800)} as desolation{H7722}{(H8675)}{H7584}, and your destruction{H343} cometh{H857}{(H8799)} as a whirlwind{H5492}; when distress{H6869} and anguish{H6695} cometh{H935}{(H8800)} upon you.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    euen whe ye thinge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly like a storme, and yor misery like a tempest: yee wha trouble and heuynesse cometh vpon you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:25-26 : 25 Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught.
  • Prov 10:24-25 : 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Luke 21:23-26 : 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
  • Rom 2:9 : 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath has come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:26
    84%

    26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

  • Prov 3:25
    78%

    25 Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes.

  • Lam 3:47
    76%

    47 Fear and a snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

  • Job 22:10
    75%

    10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ezek 7:25
    75%

    25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Job 5:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: nor shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

    22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: nor shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

  • Prov 1:28
    74%

    28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • Job 4:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

    6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the integrity of your ways?

  • Ps 55:5
    74%

    5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Jer 30:23
    74%

    23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Isa 24:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare, for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

  • Jer 23:19
    73%

    19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury, a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

  • Isa 47:11
    73%

    11 Therefore evil shall come upon you; you shall not know from where it rises. Trouble shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off. Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.

  • Job 27:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

    21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

  • Prov 24:22
    73%

    22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?

  • Ps 58:9
    73%

    9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Job 30:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

    15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.

  • Job 15:21
    73%

    21 A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • Isa 13:6
    73%

    6 Howl; for the day of the LORD is near; it will come as a destruction from the Almighty.

  • Isa 21:1
    73%

    1 The prophecy concerning the desert by the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.

  • Ps 83:15
    73%

    15 So pursue them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.

  • Job 3:25
    73%

    25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

  • Prov 18:3
    73%

    3 When the wicked comes, contempt also comes, and with dishonor, reproach.

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    72%

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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    72%

    11 Shall not his excellence make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

  • Isa 10:3
    72%

    3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

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    72%

    18 They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Job 6:21
    72%

    21 For now you are nothing; you see my downfall and are afraid.

  • Job 31:23
    72%

    23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • Zeph 2:2
    72%

    2 Before the decree comes forth, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

  • Jer 22:22
    72%

    22 The wind shall eat up all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

  • Job 15:24
    72%

    24 Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

  • Ps 55:8
    72%

    8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

  • Isa 28:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

    19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

  • Ezek 27:35
    72%

    35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

  • Job 37:22
    72%

    22 Fair weather comes out of the north; with God is awesome majesty.

  • Isa 57:13
    71%

    13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away, vanity shall take them; but he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

  • Joel 1:15
    71%

    15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

  • Ezek 27:30
    71%

    30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Isa 2:21
    71%

    21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the rugged rocks, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.

  • Ezek 26:18
    71%

    18 Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

  • Prov 10:24
    71%

    24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

  • Isa 21:4
    71%

    4 My heart pounded, fearfulness frightened me; the night that I delighted in has been turned into terror for me.