Isaiah 30:13
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13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(A)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking (B)comes suddenly, in an instant.
Ezekiel 13:10-15
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10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, (A)‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they (B)plaster[a] it with untempered mortar— 11 say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. (C)There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. 12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it. 14 So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. (D)Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
15 “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it,
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- Ezekiel 13:10 Or whitewash
Isaiah 29:5
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5 “Moreover the multitude of your (A)foes
Shall be like fine dust,
And the multitude of the terrible ones
Like (B)chaff that passes away;
Yes, it shall be (C)in an instant, suddenly.
Proverbs 29:1
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Happy Is He Who Keeps the Law
29 He(A) who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck,
Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Psalm 62:3
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3 How long will you attack a man?
You shall be slain, all of you,
(A)Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
1 Kings 20:30
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30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left.
And Ben-Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber.
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1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
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The Day of the Lord
5 But concerning (A)the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that (B)the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (C)sudden destruction comes upon them, (D)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Luke 6:49
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49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it [a]fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”
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- Luke 6:49 NU collapsed
Matthew 7:27
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27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
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Psalm 73:19-20
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19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You awake,
You shall despise their image.
Job 36:18
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18 Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow;
For (A)a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
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