50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:

And he cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?"

While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.

No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this child's life come into him again."

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a complete end; 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 any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes,

He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?

The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

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

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.

And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?"

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.