Isaiah 45:7
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7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and (A)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’
Amos 3:6
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6 If a [a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?
Footnotes
- Amos 3:6 ram’s horn
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
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13 Consider the work of God;
For (A)who can make straight what He has made crooked?
14 (B)In the day of prosperity be joyful,
But in the day of adversity consider:
Surely God has appointed the one [a]as well as the other,
So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:14 alongside
Psalm 75:7
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Job 2:10
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10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. (A)Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (B)In all this Job did not (C)sin with his lips.
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Isaiah 31:2
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2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster,
And (A)will not [a]call back His words,
But will arise against the house of evildoers,
And against the help of those who work iniquity.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 31:2 retract
Jeremiah 51:20
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20 “You(A) are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
Jeremiah 13:16
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
Acts 4:28
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28 (A)to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
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Nahum 1:8
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8 But with an overflowing flood
He will make an utter end of its place,
And darkness will pursue His enemies.
Jeremiah 31:35
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35 Thus says the Lord,
(A)Who gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs (B)the sea,
And its waves roar
(C)(The Lord of hosts is His name):
Amos 5:6
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6 (A)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
Ezekiel 32:8
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8 All the [a]bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,
And bring darkness upon your land,”
Says the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 32:8 Or shining
Psalm 104:20-23
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20 (A)You make darkness, and it is night,
In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 (B)The young lions roar after their prey,
And seek their food from God.
22 When the sun rises, they gather together
And lie down in their dens.
23 Man goes out to (C)his work
And to his labor until the evening.
Ezekiel 14:15-21
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15 “If I cause (A)wild beasts to pass through the land, and they [a]empty it, and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts, 16 even (B)though these three men were [b]in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; only they would be delivered, and the land would be (C)desolate.
17 “Or if (D)I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I (E)cut off man and beast from it, 18 even (F)though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only they themselves would be delivered.
19 “Or if I send (G)a pestilence into that land and (H)pour out My fury on it in blood, and cut off from it man and beast, 20 even (I)though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live,” says the Lord God, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”
21 For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when (J)I send My four [c]severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?
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- Ezekiel 14:15 Lit. bereave it of children
- Ezekiel 14:16 Lit. in the midst of it
- Ezekiel 14:21 Lit. evil
Job 34:29
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29 When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble?
And when He hides His face, who then can see Him,
Whether it is against a nation or a man alone?—
Jude 6
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6 And the angels who did not keep their [a]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
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- Jude 1:6 own
2 Corinthians 4:6
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6 For it is the God (A)who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has (B)shone in our hearts to give 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 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to (A)pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 (B)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, (C)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. 9 And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
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Isaiah 10:5-6
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Arrogant Assyria Also Judged
5 “Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against (B)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will (C)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Joel 2:2
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2 (A)A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
(B)A people come, great and strong,
(C)The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations.
Psalm 8:3
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3 When I (A)consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
Exodus 14:20
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20 So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
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Exodus 10:21-23
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The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, [a]darkness which may even be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was (B)thick darkness in all the land of Egypt (C)three days. 23 They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. (D)But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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- Exodus 10:21 Lit. that one may feel the darkness
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