12 Bible Verses about Calamity

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

They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but LORD was my stay.

The youth and the old man lay on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

And there occurred lightnings, and thunders, and voices. And a great earthquake occurred, such as did not happen from that time men came to be upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, so great.

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?

He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes, when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

For thus says LORD: Just as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.

Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good.

Therefore LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us, for LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.