Isaiah 47:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ But evil shall come upon you, which you cannot charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to ward off, and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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 it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know the dawning of it or how to charm it away. And a disaster and evil shall fall upon you that you shall not be able to atone for [with all your offerings to your gods]; and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, about which you shall know nothing or how to avert it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Now evil will come against you, something you won’t anticipate. A curse will fall upon you, something you won’t be able to dispel. Destruction will come upon you suddenly, something you won’t foresee.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Evil will overwhelm you, and you will not notice its rising. And calamity will fall violently over you, and you will not be able to avert it. You will suddenly be overwhelmed by a misery such as you have never known.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Evil shall come upon thee: and then shalt not know the rising thereof. And calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not keep off. Misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Isaiah 47:11 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:11

And our enemies said, “They will not know or see anything before we come upon them and kill them and stop the work.”

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come on them unawares, and let the net that they hid ensnare them; let them fall in it—to their ruin.

Psalm 50:22

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol, for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your arrogant ones shall be like fine dust and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

Isaiah 47:9

both these things shall come upon you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never known; from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would act very treacherously and that from birth you were called a rebel.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.

Jeremiah 51:29

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives and through which no mortal passes.

Jeremiah 51:8

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered; wail for her! Bring balm for her wound; perhaps she may be healed.

Lamentations 1:21

They heard how I was groaning, with no one to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring on the day that you have announced, and let them be as I am.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Matthew 18:34

And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

Luke 17:27

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.