When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Desolation - Better, tempest. The rapid gathering of the clouds, the rushing of the mighty winds, are the fittest types of the suddenness with which in the end the judgment of God shall fall on those…
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.…
Cambridge Bible
desolation So R.V. marg. Comp. Zep 1:15, where both in A.V. and R.V. this and a cognate Heb. word are rendered "wasteness and desolation." The parallel, however, is better preserved if, with R.V. text…
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