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Amos 3:6
When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future. (niv)
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Psalms 75:7
It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another. (niv)
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Amos 4:13
He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord God Almighty is his name. (niv)
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Job 2:10
He replied,“ You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said. (niv)
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Isaiah 31:2
Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against that wicked nation, against those who help evildoers. (niv)
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Jeremiah 51:20
“ You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, (niv)
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Acts 4:28
They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. (niv)
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Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom. (niv)
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Nahum 1:8
but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness. (niv)
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Jeremiah 31:35
This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name: (niv)
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Amos 5:6
Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. (niv)
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Ezekiel 32:8
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign Lord. (niv)
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Ezekiel 14:15-21
“ Or if I send wild beasts through that country and they leave it childless and it becomes desolate so that no one can pass through it because of the beasts,as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.“ Or if I bring a sword against that country and say,‘ Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.“ Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.“ For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments— sword and famine and wild beasts and plague— to kill its men and their animals! (niv)
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Isaiah 10:5-6
“ Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. (niv)
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Job 34:29
But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over individual and nation alike, (niv)
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Psalms 104:20-23
You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.The lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens.Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening. (niv)
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Jeremiah 18:7-10
If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. (niv)
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Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling— these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 4 6
For God, who said,“ Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. (niv)
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Exodus 10:21-23
Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt— darkness that can be felt.”So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived. (niv)
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Exodus 14:20
coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. (niv)
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Psalms 8:3
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, (niv)
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Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come. (niv)
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Genesis 1:17-18
God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. (niv)
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Psalms 29:11
The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace. (niv)
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Jude 1:13
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. (niv)
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James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (niv)
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Genesis 1:3-5
And God said,“ Let there be light,” and there was light.God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.God called the light“ day,” and the darkness he called“ night.” And there was evening, and there was morning— the first day. (niv)