Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.