Proverbs 1:27

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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

Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.