'Calamity' in the Bible
Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
They are before me in a day of my calamity, And Jehovah is my support,
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'
Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
For a dread unto me is calamity from God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.
Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!
Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.
As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'
Even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.
Near is the calamity of Moab to come, And his affliction hath hasted exceedingly.
Flee, turn, go deep to dwell, ye inhabitants of Dedan, For the calamity of Esau I brought in upon him, The time I inspected him.
And their camels have been for a prey, And the multitude of their cattle for a spoil, And I have scattered them to every wind, Who cut off the corner of the beard, And from all its passages I bring in their calamity, An affirmation of Jehovah.
They have heard that I have sighed, There is no comforter for me, All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that Thou hast done it, Thou hast brought in the day Thou hast called, And they are like to me.
Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:
Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,
And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.