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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Proverbs 1:27

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Counsel;   Fear of God;   God Continued...;   Holy Spirit;   Impenitence;   Instruction;   Obduracy (Hardness);   Opportunity;   Punishment;   Remorse;   Repentance;   Reprobacy;   Whirlwind;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Courage-Fear;   Meteorology;   Terror;   Whirlwind;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Despisement;   Evil;   Fear;   Finding;   Hate;   Hearing;   Knowledge;   Reproof;   Safety;   Seeking;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Call of God, the;   Fear, Unholy;   Judgments;   Whirlwind;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Whirlwinds;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Esau;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Whirlwind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anguish;   Proverbs, Book of;   Whirlwind;   Wisdom;   Wisdom of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandrian Philosophy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
when terror strikes you like a stormand your calamity comes like a whirlwind,when trouble and stress overcome you.
Hebrew Names Version
When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.
King James Version
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
English Standard Version
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
New Century Version
when disaster comes over you like a storm, when trouble strikes you like a whirlwind, when pain and trouble overwhelm you.
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.
Amplified Bible
When your dread and panic come like a storm, And your disaster comes like a whirlwind, When anxiety and distress come upon you [as retribution].
New American Standard Bible
When your dread comes like a storm And your disaster comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,
Legacy Standard Bible
When your dread comes like a stormAnd your disaster comes like a whirlwind,When distress and anguish come upon you.
Contemporary English Version
or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun.
Complete Jewish Bible
yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.
Darby Translation
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
Easy-to-Read Version
Disasters will strike you like a storm. Problems will pound you like a strong wind. Trouble and misery will weigh you down.
George Lamsa Translation
When your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you,
Good News Translation
when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.
Lexham English Bible
When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you,
Literal Translation
when your dread comes like a storm; and your calamity arrives like a tempest, when distress and anguish come on you.
Miles 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.
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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind;
King James Version (1611)
When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:
Bishop's 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.
English Revised Version
When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you.
Update Bible Version
When your fear comes as a storm, And your calamity comes on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.
Webster's Bible Translation
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
New King James Version
When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
New Living Translation
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.
New Life Bible
Fear will come to you like a storm. Hard times will come like a strong wind. When trouble and suffering come upon you,
New Revised Standard
when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
Revised Standard Version
when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.

Contextual Overview

20Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square, 21in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech: 22"How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? 23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you. 24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, 25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, 26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, 27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. 29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your fear: Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, Proverbs 10:24, Proverbs 10:25, Psalms 69:22-28, Luke 21:26, Luke 21:34, Luke 21:35, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Revelation 6:15-17

as a: Psalms 58:9, Isaiah 17:13, Nahum 1:3

distress: Luke 21:23-25, Romans 2:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - this distress Joshua 10:2 - they feared 1 Samuel 28:6 - inquired Job 15:21 - dreadful sound Job 15:24 - anguish Job 22:10 - sudden Job 31:3 - destruction Psalms 14:5 - were Psalms 63:1 - early Proverbs 6:15 - shall his Ecclesiastes 5:17 - much Isaiah 40:24 - and the Jeremiah 6:24 - anguish Jeremiah 23:19 - General Jeremiah 30:23 - the whirlwind Ezekiel 20:31 - and shall Hosea 5:15 - in their

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.
Genesis 1:21
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:25
God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:18
The LORD God also said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper."
Psalms 139:14
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Isaiah 43:7
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made."
Malachi 2:15
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. Therefore guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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", Daniel 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, Matthew 24:2;

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, Matthew 24:22. Josephus's history of those times is a proper comment on these words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Matthew 24:29 etc.; Luke 17:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:27. 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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