Bible Verses About Afflictions: God determines the continuance of

ADONAI said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.

But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.

and your children will wander about in the desert for forty years bearing the consequences of your prostitutions until the desert eats up your carcasses.

For in but a little while, my fury will end; and my anger will have destroyed them."

"For here is what ADONAI says: 'After Bavel's seventy years are over, I will remember you and fulfill my good promise to you by bringing you back to this place.