45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.

They will not be disgraced in times of adversity;
they will be satisfied in days of hunger.

For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.God is our refuge and strength,
a helper who is always found
in times of trouble.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,
who provides us with songs in the night,

But I will sing of Your strength
and will joyfully proclaim
Your faithful love in the morning.
For You have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster.

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

You caused me to experience
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Happy is one who cares for the poor;
the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.

On the day I called, You answered me;
You increased strength within me.

You have made Your people suffer hardship;
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.

For He will conceal me in His shelter
in the day of adversity;
He will hide me under the cover of His tent;
He will set me high on a rock.

You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials

The Lord is good,
a stronghold in a day of distress;
He cares for those who take refuge in Him.

I called to the Lord in distress;
the Lord answered me
and put me in a spacious place.

Call on Me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time
is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;
He instructs them by their torment.

Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty
and remember his trouble no more.

There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.

Therefore, the wise person will keep silent
at such a time,
for the days are evil.

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.

The Lord said:

I will certainly set you free and care for you.
I will certainly intercede for you
in a time of trouble,
in your time of distress, with the enemy.

The house of the righteous has great wealth,
but trouble accompanies the income of the wicked.

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.

For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

How awful that day will be!
There will be none like it!
It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he will be delivered out of it.