a (sudden) alarm (properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
cometh
בְּבֹ֤אbe.Vo'
H935
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
desolation
כְשׁוֹאָ֨הkhe.sha.'a.vah
H7722
a tempest · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
destruction
וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶםVe.'ei.de.khem
H343
oppression · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
cometh
יֶאֱתֶ֑הye.'e.Teh
H857
to arrive · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
whirlwind
כְּסוּפָ֣הke.su.Fah
H5492
a hurricane · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
distress
צָרָ֥הtza.Rah
H6869
tightness (i.e. figuratively · noun, common feminine singular absolute
anguish
וְצוּקָֽהve.tzu.Kah
H6695
a strait · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute
cometh
בְּבֹ֥אbe.Vo'
H935
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Proverbs 3:25-26 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 69:22-28 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Proverbs 10:24-25 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the c…
Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the stor…
Luke 21:23-26 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath u…
Luke 21:34-35 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so th…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:20–end
Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe,
I. By whom God calls to us - by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without. The word is plural - wisdoms, for, as there is infinite wisdom in God, so there is the manifold wisdom of God, Eph 3:10. God speaks to the children of men by all the kinds of wisdom, and, as in every will, so in every word, of God there is a counsel. 1. Human understanding is wisdom, the light and law of nature, the powers and faculties of reason, and the office of conscience, Job 38:36. By these God speaks to the childr…
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.
John Gill on Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation,.... When such will be the calamity that will occasion this fear, that it shall be like some desolating judgment, as famine, sword, and pestilence, which lays all waste: and such was the destruction of the Jews by the Romans; it not only laid Jerusalem and the temple waste, but the whole country of Judea. These are the "desolations" said to be "determined", or "the consummation and that determined", which should be "poured upon the desolate", Daniel 9:26;
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; suddenly and unthought of, fierce, and boisterous, throwing down and carrying all before it: so the said destruction did; it threw down the walls and houses of…
The address of Wisdom now takes another course. Between Pro 1:23 and Pro 1:24 there is a pause, as between Isa 1:20 and Isa 1:21. In vain Wisdom expects that her complaints and enticements will be heard. Therefore she turns her call to repentance into a discourse announcing judgment.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused;
Stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 And ye have rejected all my counsel
And to my reproof have not yielded:
26 Therefore will I also laugh at your calamity,
Will mock when your terror cometh;
27 When like a storm your terror cometh,
And your destruction swept on like a whirlwind;
When distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Commencing with יען (which, like מען,…
The Church Fathers
When sudden calamity comes upon you, etc. He speaks of the sudden siege of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the whole province that was made by the Romans, which the Lord himself predicted in the Gospel, seeing the city and weeping over it (Luke XIX).
When distress comes upon you, etc. The Jews are not read to have called upon the Lord in that siege, but only to have relied on arms, although they witnessed the desolation of their homeland and the ruin of the temple with bitter minds. However, if some did call upon him then, because they refused to understand the guilt for which they were punished, to truly repent, they cried to him in vain whom they had despised. Therefore, they are rightly said to have endured tribulation with distress. For tribulation was in them, by which they were afflicted outwardly; distress, in that they found no consolation from God inwardly. On the contrary, the saints, when oppressed outwardly by adversity, expand in heart with certain hope of salvation, knowing that they are heard when they cry to him whose words they remember to have obeyed. Hence the prophet says: When I called, you answered me, O God of my righteousness, you enlarged me when I was in distress. This whole correction of wisdom can generally apply to all the reprobates, because in the day of judgment they will cry to the stern judge, asking for the gate of the kingdom to be opened to them, and they will not deserve to be heard. For what follows, In the morning they will rise, and will not find me; that very time of the final judgment openly designates when some will rise to eternal life, and others to eternal shame and contempt.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Afflictions Of The Wicked, The · God holds in derision — God holds in derision
Call Of God, The · Rejection by God — Rejection by God
Counsel · REJECTED — REJECTED
Fear, Unholy · Shall be realised — Shall be realised
Impenitence · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Judgments · Are sent, as punishment for: Despising the warnings of God — Are sent, as punishment for: Despising the warnings of God
Obduracy (Hardness) · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Opportunity · THE MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY — THE MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Remorse · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Repentance · Exhortation to — Exhortation to
Reprobacy · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Whirlwind · General references — General references
Wisdom · .UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — .UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
You ignored my advice—i.e., the call of God himself (see Ps 14). God calls to us through creation (Ps 8; Rom 1:18-20) and Scripture (2 Tim 3:16-17; 2 Pet 1:20-21).
Rashi on Proverbs 1:27
when your fear comes like a storm Like a cloud that comes up suddenly.
like a whirlwind Tourbillon in Old French, in German wirbelwind (Cf. Rashi, Jer. 4:13, Ps. 83:16).
comes Heb. יאתה, it comes.
Young Men · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
