Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
the LORD said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
the LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
He said, "I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, the LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."
"You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
Have mercy on me, the LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.
the LORD, remember David and all his affliction,
He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
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