Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

King James Version

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Holman Bible

How suddenly they become a desolation!
They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

International Standard Version

How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

A Conservative Version

How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

American Standard Version

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Amplified


How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!

Bible in Basic English

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

Darby Translation

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

Julia Smith Translation

How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.

King James 2000

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

Lexham Expanded Bible

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

Modern King James verseion

How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

How they are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away with terrors.

The Emphasized Bible

How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased - come to an end, by reason of calamities.

Webster

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

World English Bible

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Youngs Literal Translation

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God's Ways Vindicated

18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction. 19 How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
20 It is like waking up from a dream, O Jehovah. When you awake you will despise everything they represent.

Cross References

Numbers 16:21

Move away from these men. I will destroy them instantly.

Numbers 17:12-13

The Israelites said to Moses: Now we are going to die! We will perish! We are all lost!

1 Samuel 28:20

At once Saul fell down and lay stretched out on the ground. He was terrified by what Samuel said. He was weak because he had not eaten anything all day and all night.

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

Job 18:11

Terrors startle him on every side and chase him at his heels.

Job 20:5

The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 20:23-25

With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked run when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Isaiah 21:3-4

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 30:13

For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of!

Daniel 5:6

Then the king's countenance (appearance) changed in him. His thoughts troubled him. The joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Acts 2:23

You took this man and delivered him by the determined counsel (purpose) and foreknowledge of God. With wicked hands you impaled and murdered him.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

Revelation 18:10

They will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, and say: 'Woe, woe to the great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

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