Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.

He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.

As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.

For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he is merciful and full of copassion and righteous.

It is my comfort in my trouble: for thy promise hath quickened me.

I remembred thy iudgements of olde, O Lord, and haue bene comforted.

Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.

Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.

Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.

When I called, then thou heardest me, and hast encreased strength in my soule.

Though I walke in the middes of trouble, yet wilt thou reuiue me: thou wilt stretch foorth thine hand vpon the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall saue me.

The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lord, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.

I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

The Lord vpholdeth all that fall, and lifteth vp all that are ready to fall.

He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth vp their sores.

My sonne, refuse not the chastening of the Lord, neither be grieued with his correction.

For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.

The euill man is snared by the wickednesse of his lips, but the iust shall come out of aduersitie.

Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.

If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.

So I turned and considered all the oppressions that are wrought vnder the sunne, and beholde the teares of the oppressed, and none comforteth them: and lo, the strength is of the hand of them that oppresse them, and none comforteth them.

For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.

And a couering shalbe for a shadow in the day for the heate, and a place of refuge and a couert for the storme and for the raine.