Bible Verses about

God Causes Calamity


Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Amos 3:6

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

2 Samuel 22:33-34

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

Isaiah 47:11

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Jeremiah 18:7-11

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. read more

Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Job 9:23

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Lamentations 3:38

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Proverbs 1:27

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Proverbs 24:22

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?