Isaiah 47:11

God's Word

But evil will happen to you. You won’t know how to keep it away. Disaster will strike you. You won’t be able to stop it. Destruction will overtake you suddenly. You won’t expect it.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:11

Our enemies said, “Before they know what is happening or see a thing, we will be right in the middle of them. We’ll kill them and bring the work to an end.”

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction surprise them. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

Psalm 50:22

Consider this, you people who forget God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one left to rescue you.

Psalm 55:15

Let death suddenly take ⌞wicked people⌟! Let them go into the grave while they are still alive, because evil lives in their homes as well as in their hearts.

Psalm 73:19

They are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away by terror!

Proverbs 13:21

Disaster hunts down sinners, but righteous people are rewarded with good.

Isaiah 13:6

Cry loudly, for the day of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.

Isaiah 30:13

That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s angel went out and killed 185,000 ⌞soldiers⌟ in the Assyrian camp. When the Judeans got up early in the morning, they saw all the corpses.

Isaiah 45:7

I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, the Lord, do all these things.

Isaiah 47:9

In one day both of these will happen to you instantly: the loss of your children and your husband. All this will happen to you in spite of your evil magic and your many spells.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you’ve acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.

Isaiah 57:1

Righteous people die, and no one cares. Loyal people are taken away, and no one understands. Righteous people are spared when evil comes.

Jeremiah 51:29

The earth trembles and writhes in pain. The Lord carries out his plans against Babylon to make Babylon a wasteland so that no one will live there.

Jeremiah 51:43

Its cities will be ruined. It will become a desert, a land where no one lives and where no human travels.

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon will suddenly fall and be shattered. Cry for it. Bring medicine for its pain. Maybe it can be healed.

Lamentations 1:21

“All my enemies have heard that I am groaning. No one offers me comfort. All my enemies have heard about my disaster. They are happy that you did it. You have allowed the day to come, the one that you had announced. Let my enemies be like me now.

Ezekiel 7:26

One disaster will happen after another. One rumor will follow another. People will ask for a vision from a prophet. The teachings of priests and the advice of leaders will disappear.

Matthew 18:34

“His master was so angry that he handed him over to the torturers until he would repay everything that he owed.

Luke 12:59

I can guarantee that you won’t get out until you pay every penny of your fine.”

Luke 17:27

People were eating, drinking, and getting married until the day that Noah went into the ship. Then the flood destroyed all of them.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

Revelation 3:3

So remember what you received and heard. Obey, and change the way you think and act. If you’re not alert, I’ll come like a thief. You don’t know when I will come.