12 Bible Verses about Calamity

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord helped me.

(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

Then there were flashes of lightning, roaring, and crashes of thunder, and there was a tremendous earthquake -- an earthquake unequaled since humanity has been on the earth, so tremendous was that earthquake.

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the Lord not responsible?

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

"For I, the Lord, say: 'I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.

Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?

The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.