Quotes about Calamity
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
— Psalm 18:18
Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
— Daniel 9:14
“Come!” said the sailors to one another. “Let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
— Jonah 1:7
But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
— Joshua 23:15
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
— 1 Kings 21:29
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
— 2 Kings 21:12
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
— Proverbs 1:27
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
— Proverbs 17:5
I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
— Jeremiah 36:31
Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
— Jonah 1:11
He brings eventual well-being for those who turn to Him, regardless of any hardship He may allow, but eventual calamity for those who reject Him, regardless of how well their immediate life may be going.
— James MacDonald
Were it not for the influence of the Spirit of Christ in this world, we would see much more calamity, violence, natural catastrophes, war, and crime.
— Joni Eareckson Tada