Isaiah 47:11

New International Version

Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:11

Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.”

Psalm 35:8

may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.

Psalm 50:22

“Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Psalm 55:15

Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.

Psalm 73:19

How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

Proverbs 13:21

Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.

Isaiah 13:6

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

Isaiah 29:5

But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 30:13

this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Isaiah 47:9

Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

Isaiah 48:8

You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

Jeremiah 51:29

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand— to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken. Wail over her! Get balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

Lamentations 1:21

“People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

Ezekiel 7:26

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.

Matthew 18:34

In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”

Luke 17:27

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

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.