45 Verses About Sudden from 16 Books

1_Thessalonians 5:3

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

2_Chronicles 29:36

Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

Acts 2:2

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Acts 9:3

As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Acts 16:26

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.

Acts 22:6

It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.

Acts 28:6

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.



Amos 5:9

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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.

Habakkuk 2:7

Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Isaiah 29:5

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.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.

Isaiah 48:3

I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.



Jeremiah 4:20

Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

Jeremiah 50:44

Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.



Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 9:23

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Joshua 10:9

Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.

Joshua 11:7

So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.

Luke 2:13

Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

Luke 9:39

Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.



Luke 21:34

"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Malachi 3:1

"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says the LORD of Armies.

Mark 9:8

Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

Mark 13:36

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

Numbers 6:9

"'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.

Numbers 12:4

the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, "You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!" The three of them came out.

Numbers 35:22

"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,



Proverbs 3:25

Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

Proverbs 6:15

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

Proverbs 24:22

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?

Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Proverbs 29:1

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

Psalms 6:10

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. A meditation by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

Psalms 55:15

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Psalms 64:4

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Psalms 73:19

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.





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