Bible Verses About Afflictions and Adversities

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

`Now, Mine eyes are open, and Mine ears attentive, to the prayer of this place;

and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name being there unto the age; yea, Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.

`And thou, if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and My statutes and My judgments dost keep--

then I have established the throne of thy kingdom, as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There is not cut off a man to thee--a ruler in Israel;

and if ye turn back--ye--and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them--then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.

`And this house that hath been high, to every one passing by it, is an astonishment, and he hath said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land, and to this house?

and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Jehovah, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them, and serve them, therefore He hath brought upon them all this evil.'

and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

By day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon.

And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.