Bible Verses About Afflictions

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.

His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

For--a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

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

Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins.

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.

And He--the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.

And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on--and it returneth not.

Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

Not according to our sins hath He done to us, Nor according to our iniquities Hath He conferred benefits upon us.

Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.