Proverbs 1:27
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when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
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The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.