45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

And I -- I sing of Thy strength, And I sing at morn of Thy kindness, For thou hast been a tower to me, And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

From the straitness I called Jah, Jah answered me in a broad place.

And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it is His treasure.

Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it is.

See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it is thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

In the house of the righteous is abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked -- trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

Woe! for great is that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it is to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.