'Fortune' in the Bible

so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

"Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'?

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

But as for you who abandon the Lord and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain, who prepare a feast for the god called 'Fortune,' and fill up wine jugs for the god called 'Destiny' --

We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.

"For I, the Lord, say: 'I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.

"Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, 'The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab's ill fortune." says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.

Yet in days to come I will reverse Ammon's ill fortune." says the Lord.

"Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam's ill fortune." says the Lord.