Bible Verses About Afflictions

They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.

I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.

His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.

He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.

I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.

My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.

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.

One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.

Thou hast brought vs into the snare, and layed a strait chaine vpon our loynes.

Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.

Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.

But if his children forsake my Lawe, and walke not in my iudgements:

If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

Then will I visite their transgression with the rod, and their iniquitie with strokes.

He will not alway chide, neither keepe his anger for euer.

He hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes, nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities.

Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.

Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,

And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.

I knowe, O Lord, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.