I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to dark
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who sti
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one a
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lo
Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man a
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserve
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the kno
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no cha
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.