12 Bible Verses about Sudden Destruction

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself, For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as in a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.

For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.

Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.