Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your Torah;

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

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