We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!


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2 Chronicles 15 5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
Job 30 26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Isaiah 48 22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Isaiah 57 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
James 3 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Mark 13 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Matthew 24 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Jeremiah 14 13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
Zechariah 8 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
Isaiah 59 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Psalms 28 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Luke 12 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
Isaiah 26 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
1 Thessalonians 5 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Lamentations 3 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Acts 7 11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Job 3 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Jeremiah 30 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Romans 3 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Matthew 10 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Micah 1 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Matthew 24 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Isaiah 38 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
John 14 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Psalms 80 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 90 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Isaiah 51 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
James 4 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Psalms 116 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Deuteronomy 20 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
1 Chronicles 15 13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
Lamentations 3 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Isaiah 33 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
Mark 13 7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Luke 19 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Jeremiah 25 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 16 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Ecclesiastes 7 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Obadiah 1 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Ecclesiastes 3 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Proverbs 15 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
2 Corinthians 4 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Deuteronomy 2 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Hebrews 10 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Proverbs 12 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Numbers 20 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Luke 21 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
1 Corinthians 11 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
Lamentations 5 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 44 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.