Isaiah 47:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

Psalm 50:22

Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Psalm 55:15

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into the pit: For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Psalm 73:19

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Proverbs 13:21

Evil pursueth sinners: But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.

Isaiah 13:6

Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of they foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

Isaiah 47:9

but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: in their full measure shall they come upon thee, despite of the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Jeremiah 51:29

And the land trembleth and is in pain: for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

Ezekiel 7:26

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Matthew 18:34

And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due.

Luke 12:59

I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

Luke 17:27

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

Revelation 3:3

Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.