Proverbs 1:27

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

When your fear comes as destruction, || And your calamity comes as a windstorm, || When adversity and distress come on you.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

GNV

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

JPS

When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you.

LXXE

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.

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WLC

בְּבֹ֤א כשאוה ׀ פַּחְדְּכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָ֣ה יֶאֱתֶ֑ה בְּבֹ֥א עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם צָרָ֥ה וְצוּקָֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה

LXX-Br

Καὶ ὡς ἂν ἀφίκηται ὑμῖν ἄφνω θόρυβος, ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ὁμοίως καταιγίδι παρῇ, καὶ ὅταν ἔρχηται ὑμῖν θλίψις καὶ πολιορκία, ἢ ὅταν ἔρχηται ὑμῖν ὄλεθρος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 3:25–26Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
• Nahum 1:3The 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.
• Luke 21:34–35But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of…
• 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• Proverbs 10:24–25What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
• Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
• Isaiah 17:13The 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.
• Luke 21:23–26How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the…
• Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
• Psalms 69:22–28May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever. Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake…
• Revelation 6:15–17Then 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. And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on…

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