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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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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When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 1:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 3:25-26 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes; for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
- Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
- Psalms 69:22-28 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent. Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
- Proverbs 10:24-25 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
- Isaiah 17:13 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.
- Nahum 1:3 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 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. 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. 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; 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 “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. For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
- Romans 2:9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
- Revelation 6:15-17 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. 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, for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, your destruction, which thing you feared.
That is, your destruction, which thing you feared.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and…
Pro 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Ver. 27. When your fear cometh as desolation.] Scilicet, Of war, which lays heaps upon heaps, and leaves not a stone upon a stone. {Mat 24:2}
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As a whirlwind.] Suddenly and irresistibly, and with a terrible noise and loud crash.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As desolation; as some desolating sword or judgment, which…
As desolation; as some desolating sword or judgment, which quickly overruns a whole country.
As a whirlwind; which instantly spreadeth itself from place to place with great and irresistible violence, and doing much mischief.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When your fear cometh as desolation,.... When such will…
When your fear cometh as desolation,.... When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea. These are the "desolations" said to be "determined", or "the consummation and that determined", which should be "poured upon the desolate", Dan 9:26;
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; suddenly and unthought of, fierce, and boisterous, throwing down and carrying all before it: so the said destruction did; it threw down the walls and houses of the city of Jerusalem, and the temple, and its fine buildings, so that not one stone was left upon another not thrown down, Mat 24:2;
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when distress and anguish cometh upon you; as they did at that time with a witness, when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans: what with the sword of the enemy without, and the famine within; together with the vast number of cutthroats and seditious persons among themselves; it was such a time of distress and tribulation as never was from the beginning of the world, nor ever will be, Mat 24:22. Josephus's history of those times is a proper comment on these words.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. Your destruction cometh as a whirlwind] כסופה…
Verse 27. Your destruction cometh as a whirlwind] כסופה kesuphah, as the all-prostrating blast. Sense and sound are here well expressed. Suphah here is the gust of wind.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Desolation - Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the…
Desolation - Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the clouds, the rushing of the mighty winds, are the fittest types of the suddenness with which in the end the judgment of God shall fall on those who look not for it. Compare Mat 24:29 etc.; Luk 17:24.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain fear--the object of it.
fear--the object of it.
desolation--literally, "a tumultuous noise," denoting their utter confusion.
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destruction--or calamity (Pro 1:26) compared to a whirlwind, as to fatal rapidity.
distress-- (Psa 4:1; Psa 44:11).
anguish--a state of inextricable oppression, the deepest despair.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. When… fear cometh — Wisdom dwells upon this…
27. When… fear cometh — Wisdom dwells upon this for the sake of impression, adding terrible qualifications.
Desolation — Or, a desolating tempest.
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A whirlwind — A tornado, which rapidly whirls along with irresistible violence, spreading destruction in its path. Compare Job_1:16; Job_1:19; Zep_1:15. Tornadoes were very frequent in the East during the winter and cold seasons. They often proved fatal to travellers and others exposed to their fury. Morier, describing the whirlwinds of Persia, says they swept along in a manner truly terrific. They carried away in their vortex, sand, branches of trees, and the stubble of the fields, and usually appeared to make a communication between the earth and the clouds. Our own country occasionally furnishes examples of terrific tornadoes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. desolation] So R.V. marg. Comp. Zep_1:15, where both…
27. desolation] So R.V. marg. Comp. Zep_1:15, where both in A.V. and R.V. this and a cognate Heb. word are rendered “wasteness and desolation.” The parallel, however, is better preserved if, with R.V. text we render storm, as in Eze_38:9, A.V. and R.V. LXX. has θόρυβος; Vulg. repentina calamitas.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain When your fear cometh as desolation. The imagery in…
When your fear cometh as desolation. The imagery in this verse is borrowed from nature from the tempest and whirlwind, which, in their impetuous fury, involve all in irretrievable ruin. The two leading ideas here in the writer"s mind are calamity and fear. These their fear, that which causes their fear; and their destruction, i.e. calamity both representing Wisdom"s, and so God"s, judgment, will come on sinners as a wasting tempest and sweeping hurricane. The terror and devastation caused by these latter as they pass over the face of nature are employed to depict the alarm and ruin of sinners. Desolation; hwav (shaavah) is a wasting, crashing tempest, (cf. Pro_3:25 Zep_1:15) derived from hav (shaah). "to make a crash," as of a house falling. The Vulgate reads, repentura calamitas; the LXX, afnw yorubov ; both bringing out the idea of suddenness, and the latter that of the uproar of the tempest. The Khetib, or traditional text of the manuscripts (hwavk), is equivalent to the Keri, or emended reading (hawOvk), and both appear to have the same root meaning. Destruction (dyae, eyd); the same as "calamity" in the preceding verse. Whirlwind; hpWs (suphah), from the root pWs (suph), "to snatch, or carry away," means a whirlwind carrying everything before it the katagiv of the LXX, or hurricane, as in Arist., "Mund.," 4, 16. Distress and anguish (hqWxw hrx, tsarah v"tzukah). A corresponding alliteration occurs in Isa_30:6 and Zep_1:15. The root signification of the former is that of compression, reproduced in the LXX yliqiv , and the Vulgate tribulatio; that of the latter is narrowness. LXX, poliorkia , "a beleaguering;" VUlgate, angustga. The LXX adds, at the close of this verse, h otan erchtai umin oleyrov as explanatory.
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