50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

He cried to the LORD, and said, "LORD my God, have you also brought disaster on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?"

For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way 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 men who dwell in Jerusalem?

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but a foreigner eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called out to the LORD, and said, "LORD my God, please let this child's soul come into him again."

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

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

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Do not be afraid of sudden fear, or of the storm of the wicked when it comes:

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

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

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

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

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

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

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come to his house.

This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

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

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

My anguish, my anguish. I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

behold, the LORD will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

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

For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to the children of men.

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

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and Shaddai has afflicted me?"

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel"; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.