46 Bible Verses about Afflictions

Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. If you do, I, Jehovah, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,

You Jehovah rewarded me because of my righteousness. Because my hands are clean you rewarded me. I have kept the ways of Jehovah. I have not wickedly turned away from my God. All your judgments are in front of me. I have not turned away from your laws. read more.
You know I am faultless. I have kept myself from doing wrong. You reward me because I do what is right. You know I am innocent. O Jehovah, you are faithful to those who are faithful to you, and completely good to those who are faultless. You are pure to those who are pure, but hostile to those who are wicked. You rescue the humble. You find ways to humiliate the proud.

He does not have to set a time for a person in order to bring him to divine judgment. He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them and puts others in their places. He knows what they do, so he overthrows them at night, and they are crushed. read more.
In return for their evil, he strikes them in public. This is because they turned away from following him. They did not consider any of his ways. They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

I know that Jehovah will defend the rights of those who are oppressed and the cause of those who are needy.

All the days of the afflicted are evil. He who has a merry heart has a continual feast.

We cannot find the Almighty. He is exalted in power but will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

Jehovah does not give a man up for a very long time. For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart. read more.
A man crushes under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. He turns away the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High. Jehovah would not seek to deprive a man of justice. Who is able to say something should occur if Jehovah has not ordered it. Do not calamities and good things come from the mouth of the Most High? What protest may a living man make? Can a man protest about the punishment for his sin?

I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Beware of men! They will take you to court! They will have you beaten in their meeting places. You will be taken before governors and kings for my sake. This will serve as a testimony to them and to the people of the nations.

These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth). People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake. Many will stumble and betray and hate one another. read more.
Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. Wickedness and lawlessness will increase. The love of many will grow cold. The person who endures to the end will be saved.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us. We do not look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal (for a season). But the things that are not seen are eternal.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort. It works through patience and longsuffering and is the same sufferings that we also suffer.

THIS IS THE PEOPHESY ABOUT THE MESSIAH. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm (power) of Jehovah been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance will make us desire him. He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much. read more.
He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions! He was crushed for our iniquities! The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. There has been healing for us because of his wounds. We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him. He was oppressed and afflicted and yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was silent like sheep ready to be sheared. He did not open his mouth. He was oppressed, judged and taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? He was removed from the land of the living. He was destroyed because of the transgression of my people. He was buried like a criminal in a rich mans grave. He had done no wrong, nor was any deceit in his mouth. It was Jehovah's will to allow him to be crushed. Even though Jehovah makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of Jehovah will prosper in his hand. After his suffering he will see the light and be satisfied. By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many. He will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great. He will divide the spoils with the strong. This is because he poured out his life unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist (preacher of the good news), and fulfill your ministry.

Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.

The righteous person has many troubles, but Jehovah rescues him from all of them.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

But He knows the way I walk. He has tried me. I shall come forth as gold.

Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

But He knows the way I walk. He has tried me. I shall come forth as gold.

Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

My son, do not despise Jehovah's discipline or be weary of his correction. For whom Jehovah loves He reproves, just like a father corrects the son he loves dearly. (Hebrews 12:6)

You have forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as to sons: My son, do not despise (regard lightly) discipline from Jehovah and do not lose heart when he corrects you. (Proverbs 3:11, 12)

But when we are judged, Jehovah disciplines us, that we should not be destroyed (condemned) with the world. (Proverbs 3:11)

I reprove and discipline those whom I love: be zealous therefore, and repent.

God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us!

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and when the seventh one comes, no harm will touch you:

He is the one who will rescue you from the bird hunter's trap (fowler's snare) and from deadly plagues.

You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

Even in your old age with gray hair I am he, I am he who will support you. I have made you and I will bear your burden (take care of you). I will sustain (support) (strengthen) you and I will rescue you (keep you safe).

I am in anguish. How long, O Jehovah, how long?

([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

O Jehovah, how long will you observe? Rescue me from their attacks. Rescue my precious life from the lions.

How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?

O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

They would not obey. They were stubborn like their ancestors. They did not trust in Jehovah their God.

When he had this trouble, King Ahaz became more unfaithful to Jehovah!

He did not humble himself in front of Jehovah as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

You admonished them so that you might make them come back again to your law. Their hearts were lifted up, and they paid no attention to your orders. They went against your life giving decisions and turned their backs on you. They were stubborn and did not listen.

Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

But He knows the way I walk. He has tried me. I shall come forth as gold.

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

I will turn my power against you (turn the back of my hand upon you). I will remove your impurities with bleach. I will get rid of all your worthless qualities.

I have been testing you for myself like silver. I have put you through the fire of trouble.

I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.

I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.

You have trapped us in a net. You have laid burdens on our backs.

Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.

I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.

You have trapped us in a net. You have laid burdens on our backs.

You have forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as to sons: My son, do not despise (regard lightly) discipline from Jehovah and do not lose heart when he corrects you. (Proverbs 3:11, 12)

We have this ministry to do, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart.

We do not give up! Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

So I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory.

In all their difficulty he was concerned, and he was the messenger who saved them. In his love and compassion he reclaimed (redeemed) them. He always held them and carried them in the past.

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

This is my comfort in my affliction: That your word has revived me.

But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

He rescued them many times, but they continued to plot rebellion against him and to sink deeper because of their sin. He saw that they were suffering when he heard their cry for help. He remembered his promise to them. In keeping with his rich mercy, he changed his plans. read more.
He let them find compassion from all those who held them captive.

Jehovah is waiting to be kind to you. He rises to have compassion on you. Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. You will live in Zion, in Jerusalem. You will not cry anymore. Jehovah will certainly have pity on you when you cry for help. As soon as he hears you, he will answer you. Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes. read more.
You will hear a voice behind you say: This is the way. Walk in it, whether it turns to the right or to the left.

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

But as for me, I will look to Jehovah! I will wait for the God of my salvation! My God will hear me. Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy! When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him. He will plead my cause, and execute judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will see his righteousness.

Learn this lesson by heart: Jehovah your God disciplined you like parents discipline their children.

I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

For whom Jehovah loves He reproves, just like a father corrects the son he loves dearly. (Hebrews 12:6)

But when we are judged, Jehovah disciplines us, that we should not be destroyed (condemned) with the world. (Proverbs 3:11)

Jehovah disciplines those he loves. In fact he scourges every son (child) he receives. God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

([Psalm of David]) Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Your rage lies heavily on me. You afflict me with all your waves.

Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, yes the stream would have gone over us.

Jehovah may give you troubles and hardships. But your Teacher (Grand Instructor) will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your Teacher with your own eyes.

I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

He has exhausted me. You have lain waste all my company. You have shriveled me up. It has become a witness. And my leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. His anger has torn me and hunted me down. He has gnashed at me with his teeth. My adversary glares at me. read more.
They have gaped at me with their mouth. They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt. They have massed themselves against me. God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target. His arrows surround me. Without mercy he splits my kidneys open. He pours out my gall on the ground. He breaks through me with breach after breach. He runs at me like a warrior. I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust. My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

You let people ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, but then you brought us out and refreshed us.

For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me!

You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.

If his descendants abandon my law and do not live by my rules, if they violate my statutes and do not obey my commandments, then with a rod I will punish their transgression and their crimes with beatings.

Because of the iniquity of his covetousness gain I was angry and struck him. I hid and was angry. He went on backsliding in the way of his heart (his heart directed course of life).

And said: You child of the devil, full of all subtlety and mischief, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of Jehovah? Look Jehovah's hand is on you. You will be blind and not see the sun for a season. Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

Jehovah, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

Jehovah will support him on his sickbed. You will restore him to health when he is ill.

Even though I walk into the middle of trouble, you guard my life against the anger of my enemies. You stretch out your hand, and your right hand saves me.

I am very discouraged. That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.

By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion.

Hezekiah said to Isaiah: The word of Jehovah that you spoke is good. He added: Is it not good that there is peace and security as long as I live?

Why should I fast now that he is dead? Can I bring him back? Someday I will go to him. However he will not come back to me.

Let him do to me what he wishes if he is not pleased with me.

People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.

They will do all these things to you for my name's sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me.

and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who would live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah! I will find joy in the God of my salvation.

Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For your reward is great in heaven. Your fathers treated the prophets the same way.

For His anger is only for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime! Weeping may last for the night but a shout of joy comes in the morning.

He will not always chasten, nor will he keep his anger forever.

For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

There will be no more gloom for those who were suffering. In the past he humiliated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future he will honor Galilee of the Nations, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan.

Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, declares Jehovah. I am with you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.'

Who can oppose the one who passes by and confines you in prison and convenes a court?

Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.

I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, Jehovah, do all these things.

Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.

When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

Now you will get what you deserve for what you have done. Your own advice will make you sick.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

While Elisha was still talking the king arrived and said: Jehovah brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?

Affliction does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.

So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. However the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number and spread out. The Egyptians could not stand them any longer.

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. He will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer to Jehovah offerings in righteousness.

Sadness is mine! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the whole earth. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.

Too bad for me! For I am like the gathered summer fruit, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. I desire the first ripe fig.

After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

He has not dealt with us according to our sins. He has not requited us according to our iniquities.

After they were severely beaten, they threw them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safe.

Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God at midnight. The prisoners were listening to them.

He said: Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup from me. Even so not what I will, but what you will.

Jesus said to Peter: Put the sword in the sheath. Shall I drink the cup the Father has given me?

I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!

They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.

I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

My life is spent from sorrow, my years from groaning. My strength staggers under the weight of my guilt, and my bones waste away.

Blessed is the person whom God corrects. Do not despise discipline from the Almighty.

As you know, those who have endured are called blessed. You have heard of the patience (perseverance) (endurance) of Job, and have seen the outcome Jehovah provided, how he was very tender with his affection and mercy. (Psalm 103:8)

We do not want anyone to be discouraged by these troubles. You know we were bound to suffer persecution.

One of the elders asked me: Who are these dressed in white robes? And where are they from? I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)

He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

Affliction does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years. I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve! Afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Beloved ones do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, for it comes upon you like a test, as though some strange thing were happening to you. As much as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

Beloved ones do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, for it comes upon you like a test, as though some strange thing were happening to you. As much as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. read more.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.

The righteous person has many troubles, but Jehovah rescues him from all of them. Jehovah guards all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Then Samuel told Eli everything. Eli replied: He is Jehovah! He will do what he thinks is right.

If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.

You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.

When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

You have probed my heart. You have confronted me at night. You have tested me like silver, but you found nothing wrong. I have decided that my mouth will not sin.

He asked: What are you talking about with each other as you walk? They stopped walking and were sad.

Joshua said: Alas, Sovereign Lord Jehovah, why did you bring this people across the Jordan. Was it to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan!

He would not be dissuaded. So we ceased, saying: The will of God be done!

For His anger is only for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime! Weeping may last for the night but a shout of joy comes in the morning.

He is like a man building a house. He dug and laid a deep foundation upon the rock. A flood sent a stream of water against the house and could not shake it because it was well built.

They left the council and rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

You will forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

He said: I was born with nothing (naked), and I will die with nothing. Jehovah gave, and now he has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah!

He said: Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup from me. Even so not what I will, but what you will.

Jesus said to Peter: Put the sword in the sheath. Shall I drink the cup the Father has given me?

Then he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed: My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.

He prayed: Father if it is your will remove this cup from me, nevertheless not my will, but your will be done.

After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

He has not dealt with us according to our sins. He has not requited us according to our iniquities.

Samuel remained in bed until morning. Then he opened the doors of Jehovah's house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision. Eli called Samuel and said: Samuel, my son. Here I am, he responded. What did Jehovah tell you? He asked. Please do not hide it from me. May God strike you dead if you hide anything he told you from me. read more.
Then Samuel told Eli everything. Eli replied: He is Jehovah! He will do what he thinks is right.

After they were severely beaten, they threw them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safe. Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks. Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God at midnight. The prisoners were listening to them.

Years later at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers. Suddenly he cried out to his father: My head hurts! My head hurts! Carry the boy to his mother, the father said to a servant. The servant carried the boy back to his mother. She held him in her lap until noon. Then the boy died. read more.
She carried him up to Elisha's room and put him on the bed. She closed the door behind her and left. She called her husband and said to him: Send a servant here with a donkey. I need to go to the prophet Elisha. I will be back as soon as I can. Why must you go today? Her husband asked. It is neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival. She replied: Never mind. She had the donkey saddled, and ordered the servant: Make the donkey go as fast as it can. Do not slow down unless I tell you. She left for Mount Carmel, where Elisha was. Elisha saw her coming while she was still far off. He said to his servant Gehazi: Look, there comes the woman from Shunem! Hurry to her and find out if everything is all right with her and her family. She told Gehazi that everything was all right, but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away. Elisha said: Do not bother her. You can see she is deeply distressed. Jehovah has not told me a thing about it. The woman said to him: Did I ask you for a son? Did I not tell you not to get my hopes up? Elisha told Gehazi: Hurry! Take my walking stick. Do not stop to talk to anyone. If anyone speaks to you do not respond. Go straight to the house and hold my stick over the boy. The woman said to Elisha: I swear by my loyalty to the living God Jehovah and to you that I will not leave you! So the two of them started back together. Gehazi went ahead and held Elisha's stick over the child. There was no sound or any other sign of life. He returned to meet Elisha and said: The boy did not wake up. When Elisha arrived he went alone into the room. He saw the boy lying dead on the bed. He closed the door and prayed to Jehovah. Then he lay down on the boy, placing his mouth, eyes, and hands on the boy's mouth, eyes, and hands. As he lay stretched out over the boy, the boy's body started to get warm. Elisha got up and walked around the room. He returned and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes. Elisha called Gehazi and told him to call the boy's mother. When she came in, he said to her: Take your son! She fell at Elisha's feet with her face on the ground. Then she took her son and left.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took an incense burner. They put burning coals and incense in it. Then in Jehovah's presence they offered this unauthorized fire. A fire flashed from Jehovah and burned them. They died in the presence of Jehovah. Moses said to Aaron: This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: 'All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.' But Aaron remained silent.

Why should I fast now that he is dead? Can I bring him back? Someday I will go to him. However he will not come back to me.

But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.

The king went to his palace and did not eat. He refused musical entertainment and he could not sleep.