Psalm 73:19

God's Ways Vindicated

¹⁸ Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. ¹⁹ How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
²⁰ Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

In an Instant

Numbers 16:21

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

Numbers 17:12-13

And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

1 Samuel 28:20

Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.

Job 15:21

Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 20:23-25

To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Isaiah 21:3-4

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Acts 2:23

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 18:10

They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."