31 Verses About Calamity from 11 Books

2 Samuel 22:19

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."

Ezekiel 35:5

Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Jeremiah 46:21

Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.



Jeremiah 48:16

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

Jeremiah 49:8

Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.

Jeremiah 49:32

Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the LORD.

Job 6:2

"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 18:12

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

Job 21:17

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

Job 21:30

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?



Job 30:13

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

Job 30:24

"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:23

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

Joel 2:13

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Obadiah 1:13

Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;



Proverbs 1:27

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 6:15

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

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Proverbs 17:5

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

Proverbs 24:16

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Proverbs 24:22

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



Psalms 18:18

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

Psalms 35:26

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Zechariah 1:15

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."





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