50 Bible Verses about Tragedy
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There is an evil that I have seen under the sun. It is like an error that proceeds from the ruler.
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men.
Crying to Jehovah he said: O Jehovah my God, have you sent evil even on the widow I now visit, by causing her son's death?
When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.
What about the eighteen people in Siloam killed when the castle tower fell on them? Do you think this proves that they were worse than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness the appearance of the heart is made better.
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil.
God has given man riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires. Yet God has not empowered him to partake of them for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.
I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress).
This evil is in all things that are done under the sun. There is one event that comes to all. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Madness is in their heart while they live. After that they go to the dead (die).
Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they will not be carried out, because God is with us!
Stretching himself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to Jehovah. He said: O Jehovah my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.
For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
What do you fabricate (impute) against Jehovah? He will exterminate it! Affliction will not rise up a second time.
He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins. He has not requited us according to our iniquities.
This also is a serious evil. Just as we came we will go. Whatever profit or gain we earned we loose as if we labored for the wind.
The righteous perishes and no man takes it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil.
I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, Jehovah, do all these things.
I devoted myself to study and explored wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
He said to her: You are talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Should we not also accept the bad? Through all this Job did not speak sinful words.
If they fall, the one will lift up his companion. Woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him.
Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. I declare today: I shall repay you a double portion.
Because of such things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Then he lay with his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family.
Remember your Creator (Hebrew: Bara', plural, Creators denotes majesty) (Ge 1:26) in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near. You will say: I have no pleasure in them.
O my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart pounds in side of me. My heart is pounding! I cannot keep quiet because I hear a ram's horn sounding the alarm for war.
I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
Rizpah daughter of Aiah spread some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She would not let the birds land on the bodies during the day. She kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.
Jehovah will strike a great blow to your people, your sons, your wives, and all your property because you did this.
For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.
He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.
It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ.
You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.
I went away full, and Jehovah sent me back empty. Why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that Jehovah has given witness against me, and the Almighty has brought sorrow to me?
The people in their bitterness said David should be stoned. This caused him great distress. They were thinking of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in Jehovah his God.
You will lose your mind (experience insanity) because of all the suffering.
She called the boy Ichabod (No Glory), saying: Israel's glory is gone, because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and her husband died.
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2 Samuel 20:12Amasa's body was covered with blood in the middle of the road. Joab's man saw that everybody was stopped. He dragged the body from the road out into the field and threw a blanket over it.
