Isaiah 17:14 “In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no mo…”

Isaiah 17:14

In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

World English Bible

At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

American Standard Version

At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Geneva Bible 1599

And loe, in the euening there is trouble: but afore the morning it is gone. This is the portion of them that spoyle vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.

Darby Translation

behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Young's Literal Translation

At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

Bible in Basic English

In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

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Cross references

“at evening-tide”

2 Kings 19:35 Isaiah 10:28–32 2 Kings 19:3 Psalm 37:36

2 Kings 19:35 · BSB

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 10:28–32 · BSB

Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

2 Kings 19:3 · BSB

to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

Psalm 37:36 · BSB

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

“the portion”

Proverbs 22:23 Isaiah 33:1 Judges 5:31 Job 20:29 Jeremiah 2:3 Jeremiah 13:25

Proverbs 22:23 · BSB

for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

Isaiah 33:1 · BSB

Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

Judges 5:31 · BSB

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

Job 20:29 · BSB

This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

Jeremiah 2:3 · BSB

Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 13:25 · BSB

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Read Isaiah 17