Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

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

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.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

¶ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

¶ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

¶ If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

¶ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.