Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Yes, I turned away; but later I repented. When I had been made to understand, I struck my thigh in shame and remorse, bearing the weight of the disgrace acquired when I was young.'

For I have satisfied the weary and filled the needs of all in distress."

But at that time I will rescue you," says ADONAI, "and I will not hand you over to the men you fear.

Yes, I will keep you safe; you will not fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life, because you have put your trust in me," says ADONAI.'"

'Woe to me now! ADONAI has compounded my pain with sorrow, I am weary from groaning, and I can find no relief!'

Her foes have become the head, her enemies relax, for ADONAI has made her suffer because of her many sins. Her young children have gone away captive before the foe.

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury,

It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth.

Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him.

For rejection by Adonai does not last forever.

He may cause grief, but he will take pity, in keeping with the greatness of his grace.

For he does not arbitrarily torment or punish human beings.

Why should anyone alive complain, even a strong man, about the punishment for his sins?

You came near when I called to you; you said, "Don't be afraid."

Those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they have been exiled. How broken I have been over their whoring hearts that left me, and over their eyes that went whoring after their idols! They are going to loathe themselves for all the evils they committed in their disgusting practices.

Therefore, say that Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'True, I removed them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries; nevertheless, I have been a little sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.'

'I will make you pass under the crook and bring you into the obligations of the covenant.

There you will remember your behavior and all the things you did by which you defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you committed.

"'This is the interpretation, your majesty; and it is the decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king:

"'You will be driven from human society to live with the wild animals. You will be made to eat grass like an ox and be drenched with dew from the sky, as seven seasons pass over you; until you learn that the Most High rules in the human kingdom and gives it to whomever he pleases.

"'But since it was ordered to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be kept for you until you have learned that Heaven rules everything.

Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and put up a hedge so she can't find her paths.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them. She will seek them but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; because things were better for me then than they are now.'

"But now I am going to woo her - I will bring her out to the desert and I will speak to her heart.

I will give her her vineyards from there and the Akhor Valley as a gateway to hope. She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt.