The Afflictions of the Wicked are often Sudden

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

…this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”