Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: He isgracious, and merciful, and righteous.

This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me.

I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.

In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me; Thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of mine enemies, And thy right hand will save me.

Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.

Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.

He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.

My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:

For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth, Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; Andhe that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.

And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.