Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

but know that it's God who has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

"Pity me, friends of mine, pity me! For the hand of God has struck me!

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their calamity come upon them? How often does [God] deal out pain in his anger,

Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

"I swear by the living God, who is denying me justice, and by Shaddai, who deals with me so bitterly,

I chose their way [for them], sitting as chief; I lived like a king in the army, like one who comforts mourners.

For God has loosened my bowstring and humbled me; they throw off restraint in my presence.

or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,

who didn't bless me from his heart for being warmed with the fleece from my sheep,

or if I lifted my hand against an orphan, knowing that no one would dare charge me in court;

then let my arm fall from its socket, and let my forearm be broken at the elbow!

"But if God is silent, who can accuse him; if he hides his face, who can see him? He may do this to nations and persons alike,

But no one asks, 'Where is God my maker, who causes glad songs to ring out at night,

ADONAI is a stronghold for the oppressed, a tower of strength in times of trouble.

Those who know your name put their trust in you, for you have not abandoned those who seek you, ADONAI.

For the leader. Set to "Sunrise."A psalm of David: My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?

My God, by day I call to you, but you don't answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.

Even if I pass through death-dark ravines, I will fear no disaster; for you are with me; your rod and staff reassure me

For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble, he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me high on a rock.

Then my head will be lifted up above my surrounding foes, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, sing praises to ADONAI.

For his anger is momentary, but his favor lasts a lifetime. Tears may linger for the night, but with dawn come cries of joy.

I will rejoice and be glad in your grace, for you see my affliction, you know how distressed I am.

I sought ADONAI, and he answered me; he rescued me from everything I feared.

The righteous person suffers many evils, but ADONAI rescues him out of them all.