Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Surely after that I conuerted, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth.

For I haue saciate the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.

But I wil deliuer thee in that day, saith the Lord, and thou shalt not be giuen into the hand of the men whome thou fearest.

For I will surely deliuer thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sworde, but thy life shall be for a praye vnto thee, because thou hast put thy trust in me, sayth the Lord.

Thou diddest say, Wo is me nowe: for the Lord hath laied sorrow vnto my sorrowe: I fainted in my mourning, and I can finde no rest.

Her aduersaries are the chiefe, and her enemies prosper: for the Lord hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions, and her children are gone into captiuitie before the enemie.

I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.

He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.

For the Lord will not forsake for euer.

But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,

Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.

Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.

And they that escape of you, shall remember me among the nations, where they shalbe in captiuitie, because I am grieued for their whorish hearts, which haue departed from mee, and for their eyes, which haue gone a whoring after their idoles, and they shalbe displeased in them selues for the euils, which they haue committed in all their abominations.

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, Although I haue cast them farre off among the heathen, and although I haue scattered them among the countreis, yet wil I be to them as a litle Sanctuarie in ye countreis where they shall come.

And I wil cause you to passe vnder the rod, and wil bring you into the bond of the couenant.

And there shall ye remember your wayes, and all your workes, wherein ye haue bene defiled, and ye shall iudge your selues worthy to be cut off, for all your euils, that ye haue committed.

Wherefore, O King, let my counsell be acceptable vnto thee, and breake off thy sinnes by righteousnes, and thine iniquities by mercy toward the poore: lo, let there be an healing of thine errour.

All these things shall come vpon the King Nebuchad-nezzar.

At the end of twelue moneths, he walked in the royall palace of Babel.

Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

Though shee follow after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe.

Therefore beholde, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake friendly vnto her.

And I will giue her her vineyardes from thence, and the valley of Achor for the doore of hope, and shee shall sing there as in the daies of her youth, and as in the daies when shee came vp out of the land of Egypt.