12 Bible Verses about Sudden Destruction

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.

His disaster will come suddenly. Suddenly he is broken beyond repair.

My son, respect Jehovah and the king. Do not associate with those who want to change things. Their calamity will rise suddenly! Who knows the ruin from both of them?

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Trouble and distress will surround you like a whirlwind, like a great storm.

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without a hand lifted to help her.

Their calamity will rise suddenly! Who knows the ruin from both of them?

He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

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.

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

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.