Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.

Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.

Unless your Torah had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

The LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who 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 should take this to heart.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.