Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.

Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My flesh and my heart faileth; ButGod is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.

For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah

Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah

For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.