For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
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
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
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?