Proverbs - 1:27

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27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 1:27.

Differing Translations

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When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When trouble and distress come upon you.
When sudden calamity rushes upon you, and your demise advances like a tempest, when tribulation and anguish overcome you,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Desolation - Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the clouds, the rushing of the mighty winds, are the fittest types of the suddenness with which in the end the judgment of God shall fall on those who look not for it. Compare Matthew 24:29 etc.; Luke 17:24.

Your destruction cometh as a whirlwind - כסופה kesuphah, as the all-prostrating blast. Sense and sound are here well expressed. Suphah here is the gust of wind.

When (u) your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
(u) That is, your destruction, which you feared.

When your fear cometh as desolation,.... When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea. These are the "desolations" said to be "determined", or "the consummation and that determined", which should be "poured upon the desolate", Daniel 9:26;
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; suddenly and unthought of, fierce, and boisterous, throwing down and carrying all before it: so the said destruction did; it threw down the walls and houses of the city of Jerusalem, and the temple, and its fine buildings, so that not one stone was left upon another not thrown down, Matthew 24:2;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you; as they did at that time with a witness, when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans: what with the sword of the enemy without, and the famine within; together with the vast number of cutthroats and seditious persons among themselves; it was such a time of distress and tribulation as never was from the beginning of the world, nor ever will be, Matthew 24:22. Josephus's history of those times is a proper comment on these words.

fear--the object of it.
desolation--literally, "a tumultuous noise," denoting their utter confusion.
destruction--or calamity (Proverbs 1:26) compared to a whirlwind, as to fatal rapidity.
distress-- (Psalm 4:1; Psalm 44:11).
anguish--a state of inextricable oppression, the deepest despair.

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