Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will overcome you; you will not be able to drive it away with your incantations. 1 Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to ward it off. 1 Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you know it. 1

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In The King James Version

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put if off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

In Context

10You have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; 1 your wisdom and your knowledge lead you astray, 1 but you say in your heart, “I exist, and there is no one else like me.” 1

12Persist in casting your spells and your many sorceries 1 which you have faithfully recited since your childhood; 1 perhaps you will be successful, perhaps you will scare away disaster. 1

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:11Our enemies said, “They will not know or see until we come among them and kill them, and stop the work.”

Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of Yahweh went out and attacked the camp of the Assyrians, putting to death 185,000 soldiers. When the men arose early in the morning, dead bodies lay everywhere.

Daniel 5:25This is the writing that was done: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Pharsin.'

Matthew 18:34His master was angry and handed him over to the torturers until he would pay all that was owed.

1 Thessalonians 5:3When they say, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them. It will be like birth pains in a pregnant woman. They will in no way escape.

Revelation 18:9The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and went out of control with her will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:8-15

Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come… Read the whole commentary →

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