Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities: Dispensation of God

¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

¶ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.