11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

that with a great ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extreme depth of their poverty have overflowed to the wealth of their generosity.

And you threw me [into the] deep, into the heart of [the] seas, and [the] sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me.

"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company. Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.read more.
They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me. God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of [the] wicked. "I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him. His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground. He breached me {breach upon breach}; he rushes at me like a warrior. "I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust. My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows [are] on my eyelids,

Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.

You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.

And I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, {as it is this day}.

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.