50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil I have seen under the sun-- [it is] an error that proceeds from a ruler!

Here is another misfortune that I have seen under the sun, and it [is] prevalent among humankind.

Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I [am] dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?"

Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them--do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes [upon] you.

Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life.

Sorrow [is] better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good.

{No evil will happen} to the righteous, but the wicked are filled [with] trouble.

For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also [is] vanity and a great calamity.

God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it--instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This [is] vanity--indeed, it [is] a grievous ill!

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.

This [is] the {injustice} that is done under the sun: the same fate [comes] to everyone. Also the hearts of {humans} are full [of] evil; delusion [is] in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.

{Make a plan}, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him."

For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

What do you plot against Yahweh? {He will completely destroy it}; trouble will not rise up a second time!

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad

Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or the storm of wickedness that will come.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

This also [is] a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit [does] he gain for all his toil for the wind?

The righteous [one] perishes, and there is no one who takes [it] to heart. And men of faithfulness [are] gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

I applied my mind to seek and to search by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. It [is] a grievous task God has given to {humans}.

So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is {no one} to help him up.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

{When} I fear, I trust you.

Return to [the] fortress, O prisoners of hope; today [I am] declaring [that] I will repay you double.

because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster [had been] upon his house.

Then the son of this woman died [in the] night because she laid on him.

All unrighteousness is sin, and [there] is a sin not [leading] to death.)

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

who redeems your life from [the] pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,

On account of this I will lament and wail. I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a lamentation like the jackals, and a mourning ceremony like the {ostriches}.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.

behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

He does not {afflict willingly}, or grieve {anyone}.

For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it!

I went [away] full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi {when Yahweh has testified against me} and Shaddai has brought calamity upon me?"

And {David was in a very precarious situation}, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each [one] over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

You shall become mad {because of what your eyes shall see}.

She called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband.