If a trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Amos 3:6
Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Psalm 127:1
so that all may know, from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting, that there is none but Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things. 8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
Isaiah 45:7
In meditation: let your center of awareness drip down from your head into your chest; from thinking into being.
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ 11But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly. 12So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
Isaiah 47:11