Proverbs 1:27

When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26[Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;

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

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Cross References

Psalms 58:9(58:10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.

Proverbs 3:25Thou needest not to be afraid of sudden dread, neither of the [unlooked-for] tempest over the wicked, when it cometh.

Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth by, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm-wind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, yea, a whirling storm: upon the head of the wicked shall it fall grievously.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:21-33

Wisdom's Exhortations; Doom of Obdurate Sinners. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have… Read the whole commentary →

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