AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 3:16

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Genesis 3:17

  To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

• Genesis 3:18

  It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

• Genesis 3:19

  By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

• Genesis 15:13

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.

• Exodus 1:11

  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

• Exodus 1:12

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 9:14

  For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

• Exodus 9:15

  For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

• Exodus 9:30

  But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”

• Exodus 14:4

  I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

• Exodus 14:25

  He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

• Numbers 14:33

  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

• Deuteronomy 8:5

  You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

• Deuteronomy 8:15

  who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

• Deuteronomy 8:16

  who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

• Deuteronomy 30:7

  Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

• Deuteronomy 31:17

  Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 2 Samuel 12:14

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• 1 Kings 21:27

  When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

• 2 Kings 1:1

  Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

• 2 Kings 1:2

  Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

• 2 Kings 1:3

  But Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

• 2 Kings 1:4

  Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.

• 2 Kings 5:27

  Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

• 2 Chronicles 21:12

  A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

• 2 Chronicles 21:13

  but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

• 2 Chronicles 21:14

  behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your posessions;

• 2 Chronicles 21:15

  and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;

• 2 Chronicles 21:17

  and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the posessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

• 2 Chronicles 21:18

  After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

• 2 Chronicles 21:19

  In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:20

  Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 28:5

  Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.

• 2 Chronicles 28:6

  For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 28:7

  Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.

• 2 Chronicles 28:8

  The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.

• 2 Chronicles 28:22

  In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

• Ezra 9:13

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Nehemiah 9:28

  But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

• Nehemiah 9:29

  and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

• Job 2:9

  Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

• Job 3:1

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

• Job 3:2

  Job answered:

• Job 3:3

  “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

• Job 3:4

  Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

• Job 3:5

  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

• Job 3:6

  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

• Job 3:7

  Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

• Job 3:8

  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

• Job 3:10

  because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

• Job 3:11

  “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

• Job 3:12

  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

• Job 3:13

  For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

• Job 3:14

  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

• Job 3:15

  or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

• Job 3:16

  or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

• Job 3:17

  There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

• Job 3:18

  There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

• Job 3:19

  The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

• Job 3:20

  “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

• Job 3:21

  Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

• Job 3:22

  who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

• Job 3:23

  Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

• Job 3:24

  For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

• Job 3:25

  For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

• Job 3:26

  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

• Job 4:8

  According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

• Job 5:6

  For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

• Job 5:7

  but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

• Job 5:17

  “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

• Job 5:18

  For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

• Job 6:1

  Then Job answered,

• Job 6:2

  “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

• Job 6:3

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

• Job 6:4

  For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

• Job 6:5

  Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

• Job 6:6

  Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

• Job 6:7

  My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

• Job 6:8

  “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

• Job 6:9

  even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

• Job 6:10

  Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

• Job 6:11

  What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

• Job 6:12

  Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

• Job 6:13

  Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

• Job 6:14

  “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

• Job 6:15

  My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

• Job 6:16

  Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

• Job 6:17

  In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

• Job 6:18

  The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

• Job 6:19

  The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

• Job 6:20

  They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

• Job 6:21

  For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

• Job 6:22

  Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’

• Job 6:23

  or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’

• Job 6:24

  “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

• Job 6:25

  How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

• Job 6:26

  Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

• Job 6:27

  Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

• Job 6:28

  Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

• Job 6:29

  Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

• Job 6:30

  Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

• Job 7:2

  As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

• Job 7:3

  so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

• Job 7:4

  When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

• Job 7:5

  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

• Job 7:6

  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

• Job 9:18

  He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

• Job 12:5

  In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

• Job 14:1

  “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

• Job 14:22

  But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

• Job 15:20

  the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

• Job 15:24

  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

• Job 16:6

  “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

• Job 16:7

  But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

• Job 16:8

  You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

• Job 16:9

  He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

• Job 16:10

  They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

• Job 16:11

  God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

• Job 16:12

  I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

• Job 16:13

  His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

• Job 16:14

  He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

• Job 16:15

  I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

• Job 16:16

  My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

• Job 17:7

  My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

• Job 17:8

  Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

• Job 17:9

  Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

• Job 17:10

  But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

• Job 17:11

  My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

• Job 17:12

  They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

• Job 17:13

  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

• Job 17:14

  If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

• Job 17:15

  where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

• Job 17:16

  Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

• Job 19:7

  “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

• Job 19:8

  He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

• Job 19:9

  He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

• Job 19:10

  He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

• Job 19:11

  He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

• Job 19:12

  His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

• Job 19:13

  “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

• Job 19:14

  My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

• Job 19:15

  Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

• Job 19:16

  I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

• Job 19:17

  My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

• Job 19:18

  Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

• Job 19:19

  All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

• Job 19:20

  My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

• Job 20:5

  that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

• Job 20:11

  His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

• Job 21:17

  “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

• Job 23:10

  But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

• Job 30:15

  Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

• Job 30:16

  “Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

• Job 30:17

  In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

• Job 30:18

  By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

• Job 30:19

  He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

• Job 33:19

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

• Job 33:20

  So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

• Job 33:21

  His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

• Job 33:22

  Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

• Job 36:8

  If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

• Job 36:9

  then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

• Job 36:10

  He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

• Job 36:11

  If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

• Job 36:12

  But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

• Job 36:15

  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

• Psalms 6:6

  I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

• Psalms 6:7

  My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

• Psalms 18:4

  The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

• Psalms 18:6

  In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

• Psalms 30:5

  For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

• Psalms 31:9

  Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

• Psalms 31:11

  Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

• Psalms 31:12

  I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

• Psalms 32:10

  Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

• Psalms 37:13

  The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

• Psalms 41:9

  Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

• Psalms 42:7

  Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

• Psalms 55:19

  God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.

• Psalms 64:7

  But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

• Psalms 64:8

  Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

• Psalms 64:9

  All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

• Psalms 66:12

  You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

• Psalms 78:38

  But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

• Psalms 78:39

  He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

• Psalms 80:5

  You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

• Psalms 88:8

  You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

• Psalms 88:18

  You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

• Psalms 89:30

  If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

• Psalms 89:31

  if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

• Psalms 89:32

  then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Psalms 103:9

  He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

• Psalms 103:10

  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

• Psalms 106:43

  He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

• Psalms 106:44

  Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

• Psalms 106:45

  He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• Psalms 106:46

  He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

• Psalms 107:17

  Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

• Psalms 119:75

  Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

• Psalms 126:5

  Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

• Psalms 126:6

  He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

• Proverbs 1:26

  I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

• Proverbs 1:27

  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

• Proverbs 1:30

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 1:31

  Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

• Proverbs 3:12

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

• Proverbs 3:25

  Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

• Proverbs 3:26

  for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

• Ecclesiastes 2:23

  For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

• Isaiah 9:1

  But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

• Isaiah 9:13

  Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 10:25

  For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

• Isaiah 30:13

  therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

• Isaiah 30:18

  Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

• Isaiah 30:19

  For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

• Isaiah 30:20

  Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

• Isaiah 30:21

  and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

• Isaiah 32:10

  For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won’t come.

• Isaiah 54:7

  “For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

• Isaiah 54:8

  In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

• Isaiah 57:17

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Isaiah 61:2

  to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

• Isaiah 61:3

  to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

• Jeremiah 2:30

  “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Jeremiah 5:3

  O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

• Jeremiah 24:5

  “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 24:6

  For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

• Jeremiah 29:10

  For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

• Jeremiah 30:15

  Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

• Jeremiah 46:28

  Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

• Jeremiah 49:3

  “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

• Jeremiah 49:5

  Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.

• Lamentations 3:32

  For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• Lamentations 3:33

  For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

• Ezekiel 20:37

  “I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

• Ezekiel 24:13

  In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

• Ezekiel 38:23

  I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Amos 4:6

  “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:7

  “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

• Amos 4:8

  So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:9

  “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:10

  “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:11

  “I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 4:12

  “Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

• Jonah 2:3

  For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

• Micah 7:7

  But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

• Micah 7:8

  Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

• Micah 7:9

  I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

• Nahum 1:12

  Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

• Zephaniah 3:6

  I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

• Zephaniah 3:7

  I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

• Haggai 2:17

  I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

• Zechariah 2:9

  For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

• Zechariah 7:11

  But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

• Zechariah 7:12

  Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 5:4

  Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

• Matthew 24:9

  Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

• John 15:21

  But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

• John 16:20

  Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

• John 16:33

  I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

• Acts 13:10

  and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• Acts 13:11

  Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

• Acts 14:22

  confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Romans 8:18

  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

• 1 Corinthians 10:5

  However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

• 1 Corinthians 11:32

  But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

• 2 Corinthians 4:17

  For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

• 1 Thessalonians 3:3

  that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:6

  Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

• 2 Timothy 3:12

  Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

• 2 Timothy 4:16

  At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

• Hebrews 12:6

  For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

• Hebrews 12:7

  It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

• James 5:11

  Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

• 1 Peter 1:6

  Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

• 1 Peter 4:13

  But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

• 1 Peter 4:14

  If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

• 1 Peter 5:10

  But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

• 2 Peter 2:6

  and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

• Revelation 2:21

  I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

• Revelation 7:14

  I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

• Revelation 18:10

  standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’