Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.

He has broken my strength in midcourse, he has cut short my days.

Just as a father has compassion on his children, ADONAI has compassion on those who fear him.

For he understands how we are made, he remembers that we are dust.

To the upright he shines like a light in the dark, merciful, compassionate and righteous.

In my distress my comfort is this: that your promise gives me life.

ADONAI, I keep in mind your age-old rulings; in them I take comfort.

Your laws have become my songs wherever I make my home.

If your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my distress.

Trouble and distress have overtaken me, but your mitzvot are my delight.

When I called, you answered me, you made me bold and strong.

You keep me alive when surrounded by danger; you put out your hand when my enemies rage; with your right hand you save me.

ADONAI will fulfill his purpose for me. Your grace, ADONAI, continues forever. Don't abandon the work of your hands!

I know that ADONAI gives justice to the poor and maintains the rights of the needy.

ADONAI supports all who fall and lifts up all who are bent over.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

My son, don't despise ADONAI's discipline or resent his reproof;

for ADONAI corrects those he loves like a father who delights in his son.

The wicked is trapped by his own sinful speech, but the righteous finds a way out of trouble.

He who mocks the poor insults his maker; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

If you slack off on a day of distress, your strength is small indeed.

But I turned away and thought about all the kinds of oppression being done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them. The power was on the side of their oppressors, and they had no one to comfort them.

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for all are destined to be mourned; the living should lay this to heart.

Grief is better than laughter, for sadness can improve a person.

A sukkah will give shade by day from the heat; it will also provide refuge and cover from storm and rain.