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Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?
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Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
Consider the work of God, for who can straighten out what He has made crooked?In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
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Psalms 75:7
for God is the Judge: He brings down one and exalts another.
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Amos 4:13
He is here: the One who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals His thoughts to man, the One who makes the dawn out of darkness and strides on the heights of the earth. Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.
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Job 2:10
“ You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her.“ Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
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Isaiah 31:2
But He also is wise and brings disaster. He does not go back on what He says; He will rise up against the house of wicked men and against the allies of evildoers.
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Jeremiah 51:20
You are My battle club, My weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
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Acts 4:28
to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.
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Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but He brings darkest gloom and makes thick darkness.
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Nahum 1:8
But He will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and He will chase His enemies into darkness.
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Jeremiah 31:35
This is what the Lord says: The One who gives the sun for light by day, the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar— Yahweh of Hosts is His name:
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Amos 5:6
Seek Yahweh and live, or He will spread like fire throughout the house of Joseph; it will consume everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
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Ezekiel 32:8
I will darken all the shining lights in the heavens over you, and will bring darkness on your land. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 14:15-21
“ If I allow dangerous animals to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals,even if these three men were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.“ Or if I bring a sword against that land and say: Let a sword pass through it, so that I wipe out both man and animal from it,even if these three men were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.“ Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both man and animal from it,even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live”— the declaration of the Lord God—“ they could not deliver their son or daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.“ For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four devastating judgments against Jerusalem— sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague— in order to wipe out both man and animal from it!
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Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the staff in their hands is My wrath.I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
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Job 34:29
But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,
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Psalms 104:20-23
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.
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Jeremiah 18:7-10
At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.At another time I announce that I will build and plant a nation or a kingdom.However, if it does what is evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.
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Jude 1:6
and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.
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2 Corinthians 4 6
For God who said,“ Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Exodus 10:21-23
Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.
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Exodus 14:20
It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. The cloud was there in the darkness, yet it lit up the night. So neither group came near the other all night long.
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Psalms 8:3
When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place,
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Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dense overcast, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.
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Genesis 1:17-18
God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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Psalms 29:11
The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.
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Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!
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James 1:17
Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.
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Genesis 1:3-5
Then God said,“ Let there be light,” and there was light.God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.God called the light“ day,” and He called the darkness“ night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.