New Revised Standard Version
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Contemporary English Version
They will be terrified, suddenly swept away and no longer there.

New American Bible
How suddenly they are devastated; utterly undone by disaster!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

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Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Isaiah 30:13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come.

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Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .

1 Samuel 28:20 And forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was frightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all that day.

Job 15:21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 20:23-25 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. . . .

Proverbs 28:1 The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.