Isaiah 47:11

New English Translation

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:11

Our adversaries also boasted, “Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Psalm 35:8

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

Psalm 50:22

Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.

Psalm 55:15

May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

Psalm 73:19

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

Proverbs 13:21

Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Isaiah 29:5

But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 30:13

So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

Isaiah 45:7

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

Isaiah 47:9

Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, despite your many incantations and your numerous amulets.

Isaiah 48:8

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

Isaiah 57:1

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.

Jeremiah 51:29

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

Jeremiah 51:43

The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

Jeremiah 51:8

But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. Cry out in mourning over it! Get medicine for her wounds! Perhaps she can be healed!

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me! ת (Tav)

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

Matthew 18:34

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!”

Luke 17:27

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

Revelation 3:3

Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.