And our enemies said, ‘They won’t realise it until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.’
Isaiah 47:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
And our enemies said, ‘They won’t realise it until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.’
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Your many foes will be like fine dust, and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
this iniquity of yours will be like a crumbling gap, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come in an instant #– #suddenly!
Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
You have never heard; you have never known; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.
The righteous person perishes, and no one takes it to heart; the faithful are taken away, with no one realising that the righteous person is taken away because of evil.
The earth quakes and trembles because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Her cities have become a desolation, an arid desert, a land where no one lives, where no human being even passes through.
Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm for her wound – perhaps she can be healed.
People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that you have caused it. Bring on the day you have announced, so that they may become like me.
Disaster after disaster will come, and there will be rumour after rumour. Then they will look for a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priests and counsel from the elders.
And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed.
I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.’ ,
People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you.