12 Bible Verses about Sudden Destruction

When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;
he will be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.

My son, fear the Lord, as well as the king,
and don’t associate with rebels,
for destruction from them will come suddenly;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when trouble and stress overcome you.

ו VavThe punishment of my dear people
is greater than that of Sodom,
which was overthrown in an instant
without a hand laid on it.

for destruction from them will come suddenly;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.

For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

this iniquity of yours will be
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!

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.

I made their widows more numerous
than the sand of the seas.
I brought a destroyer at noon
against the mother of young men.
I suddenly released on her
agitation and terrors.