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Most Relevant Verses. Isaiah 45:7. Verse Concepts. The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. Psalm 18:18.
- Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes. I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
- Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
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Unlike any other Hebrew prophet, Habakkuk never turns and speaks directly to the people in his short, three-chapter book. He reports his dialogue with God and God’s surprising work in him, leaving personal application to the reader. The book’s outline is rather simple, as far as Hebrew prophecies go. First, Habakkuk begins with his seemingly righte...
The core of the book’s message, from the voice of God to the hearts of his people, is live by faith in unprecedented days, come what may. God doesn’t promise the anxious prophet that soon he’ll make things better. In fact, he promises to make things much worse before they get better. Utter devastation will come first, then deliverance. First total ...
After he has been silenced, Habakkuk speaks again in chapter 3, but now in prayer, not complaint. He has heard and heeded the divine voice and now celebrates God’s unstoppable power and uncompromised justice. The prophet’s prayer concludes with two “Yet I will” statements. First, he says he will exercise patience. The prideful and unbelieving may r...
The second and final “Yet I will . . .” comes in verse 18: “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.” And the prophet says so precisely with the worst-case scenarios on the table: In other words, though the supply lines should fail, and the shelves be bare, and the economy tank, and the virus come to our own city,...
Among the many ways God may inspire his church in the coming days, we at least have one clue from Habakkuk what such patience and joy sounds like: singing. That’s the stunning and unusual way this short interaction between the prophet and God ends — with the prophet singing praise. That’s why he ends with directions for corporate worship: “To the c...
Until this point, the prophecy foretells a wonderful event, but verse 7 introduces a sobering side of God's work: He creates calamity! He links two contrasting sets of events: light and peace—representing constructive, hopeful, encouraging events—against darkness and calamity—representing destructive, fearful, discouraging circumstances.
What does the Bible say about calamity? Here are 12 Bible verses about calamity from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
88 Bible Verses about Facing Trials And Calamity. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, Romans 12:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful.
