27 Bible Verses about Distress

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Genesis 35:3

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 42:21-23

Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.” Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.” They did not know, however, that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

Judges 11:7

Then Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”

1 Samuel 22:1-2

So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him. Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.

1 Samuel 26:24

Now behold, as your life was highly valued in my sight this day, so may my life be highly valued in the sight of the Lord, and may He deliver me from all distress.”

2 Samuel 22:7

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,
Yes, I cried to my God;
And from His temple He heard my voice,
And my cry for help came into His ears.

1 Kings 1:28-29

Then King David said, “Call Bathsheba to me.” And she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king. The king vowed and said, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

2 Chronicles 28:22

Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

Job 20:22

“In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.

Isaiah 25:4

For You have been a defense for the helpless,
A defense for the needy in his distress,
A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the ruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.

Lamentations 1:20

“See, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword slays;
In the house it is like death.

Luke 21:23-25

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people; and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

1 Corinthians 7:26

I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

2 Corinthians 7:4

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know.

1 Thessalonians 3:7

for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;

From Thematic Bible


Distress » Trouble, borrowing » Pain

Job 33:19

Man is also chastened with pain on his bed,
And with unceasing complaint in his bones;

Isaiah 21:3

For this reason my loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Revelation 16:10

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,

More verses: Job 14:22 Job 30:17

Distress » Sorrow » Common to all men

Ecclesiastes 2:23

Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

Job 14:22

“But his body pains him,
And he mourns only for himself.”

More verses: Psalm 116:3 Jeremiah 8:15

Soul » Distress

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

Acts 9:9

And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

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