Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.

How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.

For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.

The liuing God hath taken away my iudgement: for the Almightie hath put my soule in bitternesse.

I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.

If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.

And when he giueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who can beholde him, whether it be vpon nations, or vpon a man onely?

But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

The Lord also wil be a refuge for the poore, a refuge in due time, euen in affliction.

And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not failed them that seeke thee.

To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?

O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.

For in the time of trouble hee shall hide mee in his Tabernacle: in the secrete place of his pauillion shall he hide me, and set me vp vpon a rocke.

And nowe shall hee lift vp mine head aboue mine enemies rounde about mee: therefore wil I offer in his Tabernacle sacrifices of ioy: I wil sing and praise the Lord.

For he endureth but a while in his anger: but in his fauour is life: weeping may abide at euening, but ioy commeth in the morning.

I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he deliuered me out of all my feare.

Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.