Bible Verses About Afflictions: Often severe

Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

He breaketh me--breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;