Bible Verses About Consolation Under Affliction

The eternal God isthy dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.

But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

Thou hast seenit; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.

This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints; For there is no want to them that fear him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

Jehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing: Thou makest all his bed in his sickness.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.

By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Andwhy art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him Forthe help of his countenance.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me.

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

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

Let, I pray thee, thy lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

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.