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Selected Verse: Proverbs 1:27 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 1:27 |
King James |
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
fear--the object of it.
desolation--literally, "a tumultuous noise," denoting their utter confusion.
destruction--or calamity (Pro 1:26) compared to a whirlwind, as to fatal rapidity.
distress-- (Psa 4:1; Psa 44:11).
anguish--a state of inextricable oppression, the deepest despair. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Mat 24:29 etc.; Luk 17:24. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: