Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed.

My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and rehearse a psalm.

Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing a psalm to thee among the nations.

A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom.

O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:

Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the cover of thy wings:

They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.

But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.