Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayer made in this place.

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house, so that my name can be there forever; my eyes and heart will always be there.

As for you, if you will live in my presence, as did David your father, doing everything I have ordered you to do, and keeping my laws and rulings;

then I will establish the throne of your rulership, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You will never lack a man to be ruler in Isra'el.'

But if you turn away and abandon my regulations and mitzvot which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, worshipping them;

then I will pull them up by the roots out of the land I have given them. This house, which I consecrated for my name, I will eject from my sight; and I will make it an example to avoid and an object of scorn among all peoples.

This house, now so exalted - everyone passing by will be shocked at the sight of it and will ask, 'Why has ADONAI done this to this land and to this house?'

But the answer will be, 'It's because they abandoned ADONAI the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, worshipping and serving them; this is why [ADONAI] brought all these calamities on them.'"

he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. ADONAI gave; ADONAI took; blessed be the name of ADONAI."

"But now it comes to you, and you are impatient; at the first touch, you are in shock.

For misery does not come from the dust or trouble spring from the ground.

No, people are born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

"If I were you, I would seek God; I would make my plea to him.

For God does great deeds beyond investigation, wonders beyond all reckoning.

He gives rain to the earth, pours water down on the fields.

He raises the lowly on high and lifts mourners to safety.

He frustrates the schemes of the cunning, so that they achieve no success;

trapping the crafty in their own tricks and foiling quickly the plans of the false.

They meet with darkness during the day, groping at noon like at night.

But he saves the poor from the sword, their mouth, and from the clutches of the strong;

so the poor can hope again; and injustice shuts its mouth.

"How happy the person whom God corrects! So don't despise Shaddai's discipline.

For he wounds, but he bandages the sore; his hands may strike, but they also heal.

He will rescue you from six disasters; yes, in seven no harm will touch you.