Isaiah 45:7
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7 I form light and create darkness;
I make well-being and (A)create calamity;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Amos 3:6
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6 (A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
unless the Lord has done it?
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
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14 (C)In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, (D)so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
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Psalm 75:7
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Isaiah 31:2
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2 And (A)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
(B)he does not call back his words,
but (C)will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of (D)those who work iniquity.
Jeremiah 51:20
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20 “You are my hammer and weapon of war:
with you I (A)break nations in pieces;
with you I destroy kingdoms;
Jeremiah 31:35
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35 Thus says the Lord,
who (A)gives the sun for light by day
and (B)the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
(C)the Lord of hosts is his name:
Jeremiah 13:16
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
(B)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the twilight mountains,
and (C)while you look for light
he turns it into gloom
and makes it (D)deep darkness.
Nahum 1:8
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8 But (A)with an overflowing flood
he will make a complete end of the adversaries,[a]
and (B)will pursue his enemies into darkness.
Footnotes
- Nahum 1:8 Hebrew of her place
Amos 5:6
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6 (A)Seek the Lord and live,
(B)lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for (C)Bethel,
Ezekiel 32:8
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8 All the bright lights of heaven
will I make dark over you,
and (A)put darkness on your land,
declares the Lord God.
Psalm 104:20-23
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20 (A)You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 (B)The young lions roar for their prey,
seeking their food from God.
22 When the sun rises, they steal away
and lie down in their (C)dens.
23 (D)Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until the evening.
Acts 4:28
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28 (A)to do whatever your hand and (B)your plan had predestined to take place.
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Ezekiel 14:15-21
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15 (A)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, (B)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, 16 even if these three men were in it, (C)as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but (D)the land would be desolate.
17 “Or (E)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, (F)and I cut off from it man and beast, 18 (G)though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19 “Or (H)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (I)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (J)sword, (K)famine, (L)wild beasts, and (M)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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Isaiah 10:5-6
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Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a (B)godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (C)spoil and seize plunder,
and to (D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Job 34:29
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29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man?—
Jude 6
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6 And (A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
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2 Corinthians 4:6
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6 For God, who said, (A)“Let light shine out of darkness,” (B)has shone in our hearts to give (C)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Jeremiah 18:7-10
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7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (A)pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (B)turns from its evil, (C)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will (D)build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.
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Psalm 29:11
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Footnotes
- Psalm 29:11 Or The Lord will give… The Lord will bless
Joel 2:2
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2 (A)a day of darkness and gloom,
(B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
(C)a great and powerful people;
(D)their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
Psalm 8:3
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3 When I (A)look at your heavens, the work of your (B)fingers,
the moon and the stars, (C)which you have set in place,
Exodus 14:20
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20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night[a] without one coming near the other all night.
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- Exodus 14:20 Septuagint and the night passed
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