Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities: Consolation in

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

¶ Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

¶ This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

¶ I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

¶ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

¶ Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

¶ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.