'Calamity' in the Bible

But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident."

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

You thoroughly defeated Edom and it has gone to your head! Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?"

You defeated Edom and it has gone to your head. Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?"

For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?"

When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) -- a fate for those whose feet slip!

Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him --

He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity."

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

A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Fearing the Lord leads to life, and one who does so will live satisfied; he will not be afflicted by calamity.

Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.

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.

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

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

"'You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us -- what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

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.

You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.