Bible Verses About Consolation Under Affliction

The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.

For I am sure, that my Redeemer liueth, and he shall stand the last on the earth.

And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.

Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.

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.

Though my father and my mother shoulde forsake me, yet the Lord will gather me vp.

This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles.

Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him.

The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.

The Lord wil strengthen him vpon ye bed of sorow: thou hast turned al his bed in his sicknes.

Yea, my familiar friend, whom I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lifted vp the heele against me.

Therefore, O Lord, haue mercy vpon mee, and raise me vp: so I shall reward them.

By this I know that thou fauourest me, because mine enemie doth not triumph against me.

And as for me, thou vpholdest me in mine integritie, and doest set me before thy face for euer.

Why art thou cast downe, my soule, and vnquiet within me? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes for the helpe of his presence.

The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

Cast mee not off in the time of age: forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Yea, euen vnto mine olde age and graie head, O God: forsake me not, vntill I haue declared thine arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shall come.

Thou wilt increase mine honour, and returne and comfort me.

In the multitude of my thoughts in mine heart, thy comfortes haue reioyced my soule.

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

I pray thee that thy mercie may comfort me according to thy promise vnto thy seruant.

Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?

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.