Topic
Calamity
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 32:35ISBE
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
- 2 Samuel 22:19ISBE
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
- Job 6:2ISBE
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 30:13ISBE
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- Psalms 18:18ISBE
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
- Psalms 141:5ISBE
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Proverbs 1:26ISBE
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- Proverbs 1:27ISBE
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 19:13ISBE
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 27:10ISBE
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
- Jeremiah 46:21ISBE
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
ka-lam'-i-ti ('edh, "a load" or "burden" under which one is crushed, hence, "misfortune"; hayyah, hawwah, "fall," "ruin," the latter word used only in the plural; ra`, "evil in essence" hence, "adversity," once only, Ps 141:5, the Revised Version (British and American) "wickedness"): Purely an Old Testament term, signifying adversities--natural, but more often those that result from wickedness or moral evil. Various kinds:
(1) folly, "a foolish son" (Pr 19:13);
(2) disease, poverty, bereavement, as in Job's experience (Job 6:2; 30:13);
(3) persecution (2Sa 22:19; Ps 18:18);
(4) Divine retribution and judgment (De 32:35); compare ruin of the wicked (Pr 1:26, also Pr 1:27 the Revised Version (British and American) for "destruction" the King James Version);
(5) the devastation of war (Jer 46:21);
(6) adversities of any kind (Pr 27:10).
Dwight M. Pratt
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.