Proverbs 1:27

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:25-26 : 25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes: 26 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
  • Prov 10:24-25 : 24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. 25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Luke 21:23-26 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
  • Rom 2:9 : 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. 16 They told the mountains and the 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 is able to stand?"
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent. 24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. 27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

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    26I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

  • Prov 3:25
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    25Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

  • Lam 3:47
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    47Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

  • Job 22:10
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    10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Ezek 7:25
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    25Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Job 5:21-22
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    21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

    22At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • Job 4:5-6
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    5But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

    6Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

  • Ps 55:5
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    5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Jer 30:23
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    23Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Isa 24:17-18
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    74%

    17Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth.

    18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

  • Jer 23:19
    73%

    19Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

  • Isa 47:11
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    11Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.

  • Job 27:20-21
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    73%

    20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

    21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

  • Prov 24:22
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    22for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?

  • Ps 58:9
    73%

    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Job 30:14-15
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    73%

    14As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

    15Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

  • Job 15:21
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    21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • Isa 13:6
    73%

    6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Isa 21:1
    73%

    1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

  • Ps 83:15
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    15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

  • Job 3:25
    73%

    25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

  • Prov 18:3
    73%

    3When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • Job 13:11
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    11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

  • Isa 10:3
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    3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  • Job 21:18
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    18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Job 6:21
    72%

    21For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

  • Job 31:23
    72%

    23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

  • Zeph 2:2
    72%

    2before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.

  • Jer 22:22
    72%

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

  • Job 15:24
    72%

    24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Ps 55:8
    72%

    8"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."

  • Isa 28:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

    19As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message."

  • Ezek 27:35
    72%

    35All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

  • Job 37:22
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    22Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

  • Isa 57:13
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    13When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain."

  • Joel 1:15
    71%

    15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Ezek 27:30
    71%

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

  • Isa 2:21
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    21To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

  • Ezek 26:18
    71%

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

  • Prov 10:24
    71%

    24What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

  • Isa 21:4
    71%

    4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.