Here are 12 Bible verses about calamity from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Lamentations 3:38 KJV
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Amos 3:6 KJV
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Lamentations 2:21 KJV
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Job 5:19 KJV
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Proverbs 6:15 KJV
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Proverbs 1:26-27 KJV
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Revelation 16:18 KJV
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Jeremiah 32:42 KJV
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
Daniel 9:14 KJV
Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Psalms 18:18 KJV
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Isaiah 45:7 KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Proverbs 1:26 KJV
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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