43 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.

So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

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In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.