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Psalms 127:2
In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food— yes, he gives sleep to the one he loves.
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Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man,“ Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘ Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.
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2 Kings 1 6
They replied,“ A man came to meet us and said,‘ Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him,“ This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.”’”
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2 Chronicles 24 24-2 Chronicles 24 25
Although the Aramean army came with only a few men, the LORD handed over a vast army to them because the people of Judah had abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors. So they executed judgment on Joash.When the Arameans saw that Joash had many wounds, they left him. His servants conspired against him, and killed him on his bed, because he had shed the blood of the sons of the priest Jehoiada. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
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Ezekiel 4:16-17
He said to me,“ Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat food they have weighed out and in dread drink rationed waterfor lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
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Acts 12:23
At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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Job 21:25
Yet another person dies with a bitter soul, having never tasted prosperity.
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Psalms 78:33
He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.
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Proverbs 1:27-29
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.Because they hated knowledge, didn’t choose to fear the LORD,
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2 Kings 1 2
Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them,“ Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
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Psalms 102:9
I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears
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2 Chronicles 16 10-2 Chronicles 16 12
Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.Note that the events of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD but only the physicians.
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1 Corinthians 11 30-1 Corinthians 11 32
This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.If we were properly judging ourselves, we would not be judged,but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.
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2 Kings 5 27
Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased, resembling snow.
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Psalms 90:7-11
For we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.For all our days ebb away under your wrath; we end our years like a sigh.Our lives last seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow; indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.Who understands the power of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.
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1 Kings 17 12
But she said,“ As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked— only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”
