Bible verses about "tragedy" | Leeser

¹ To the chief musician: by the sons of Korach, upon ‘Alamoth, a song. ^(46:2) God is our protection and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found. ^{2 (46:3)} Therefore will we not fear, even when the earth is transformed, and when mountains are moved into the heart of the seas; ^{3 (46:4)} When the waters thereof roar and foam, when mountains quake before his majesty. Selah.

¹ A song for the degrees. I lift up my eyes unto the mountains: whence shall come my help? ² My help is from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away. ² He shall come to his fathers in peace: they shall repose in their resting-place, every one that walketh in his uprightness.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off for ever; ³² But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses. ³³ For he doth not afflict of his own will, and aggrieve the children of men.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release; ² To proclaim a year of favor of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all mourners; ³ To grant unto the mourners of Zion,—to give unto them ornament in the place of ashes, oil of gladness in the place of mourning, garments of praise in the place of a grieved spirit; that they may be called, Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

¹⁷ For the fig-tree doth not bud, and no fruit is on the vines; the productiveness of the olive deceiveth, and the fields yield no food; from the fold the flocks are cut off, and there are no herds in the stalls. ¹⁸ Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will exult in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ The Lord Eternal is my strength, and he maketh my feet fleet as those of the hinds, and he will cause me to tread upon my high places. To the chief musician of my songs.

^{18 (34:19)} The Lord is nigh unto those that are broken-hearted: and he saveth those that are of a contrite spirit.