11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions
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During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity.
You threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
and the current overcame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.
Surely He has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
His anger tears at me, and He harasses me.
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
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They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.
God hands me over to unjust men;
He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, but He shattered me;
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;
His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
He breaks through my defenses again and again;
He charges at me like a warrior. I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength in the dust.
My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.
I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
Then he told me:
These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.
But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.
You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me;
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
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