Proverbs 1:27 “when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlw…”

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,

Darby Translation

when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“your fear”

Psalm 69:22–28 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Revelation 6:15–17 Proverbs 3:25 Proverbs 3:26 Proverbs 10:24

Psalm 69:22–28 · BSB

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 6:15–17 · BSB

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Proverbs 3:25 · BSB

Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

Proverbs 3:26 · BSB

for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Proverbs 10:24 · BSB

What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

“as a”

Psalm 58:9 Isaiah 17:13 Nahum 1:3

Psalm 58:9 · BSB

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Isaiah 17:13 · BSB

The 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.

Nahum 1:3 · BSB

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

“distress”

Romans 2:9 Luke 21:23–25

Romans 2:9 · BSB

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

Luke 21:23–25 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

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

In context

26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

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