Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.

On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.