Micah 1:12

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Isaiah 59:9-11

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 4:13

When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Isaiah 45:7

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

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

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Summary

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Maroth

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Bible References

Maroth

Ruth 1:20
She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Waited carefully

1 Samuel 4:13
When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.
Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

But

Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?

General references

Isaiah 24:12
Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

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