27 Bible Verses about Distress

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Genesis 35:3

After that let us go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, who answered me when I was troubled and who has been with me wherever I have gone.

Genesis 42:21-23

They said to one another: Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us. Reuben said: Did I not tell you? Did I say, 'Do not sin against the boy'? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood. They did not know that Joseph understood. There was an interpreter between them.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in trouble (distress) and all these things happen to you in the latter days, turn to Jehovah your God and obey his voice.

Judges 11:7

Jephthah answered: You hated me so much that you forced me to leave my father's house. Why have you come to me now that you are in trouble?

1 Samuel 22:1-2

David escaped from the town of Gath and he went to Adullam Cave. Once they found out where he was his brothers and the rest of his family followed him there. A lot of other people joined him too. Some were in trouble. Others were angry or in debt. David was soon the leader of four hundred men.

1 Samuel 26:24

I valued and saved your life today. I pray that you will value and save my life and that Jehovah will deliver me out of tribulation.

2 Samuel 22:7

I called to Jehovah in my trouble. I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice. He listened to my cry for help.

1 Kings 1:28-29

King David said: Ask Bathsheba to come back in. She came and stood before him. Then he said to her: I promise you by the living God Jehovah (YHWH), who has rescued me from all my troubles,

2 Chronicles 28:22

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

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them: You see what a bad condition we are in. How Jerusalem is a waste. It's gateways burned with fire. Come; let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

Job 20:22

Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him.

Isaiah 25:4

You have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,

Lamentations 1:20

See, O Jehovah, I am in trouble. The inmost parts of my body are deeply moved. My heart is turned in me for I have been rebellious. Outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

Luke 21:23-25

Woe to those who are pregnant and those who nurse a child in those days! There will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people. They will be killed by the edge of the sword. Some will be led captive into all the nations. The people of the nations will tread down Jerusalem until the time of the Nations is fulfilled. There will be signs in sun and moon and stars. The earth will experience distress of nations in disarray for the roaring of the sea and the waves.

1 Corinthians 7:26

Because of the present distress I think it is good for you to remain as you are.

2 Corinthians 7:4

Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

When we were with you, we told you that we would suffer tribulation and affliction. It happened, as you know.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

That is why we boast (rejoice) (have glory) about you in the congregations of God. We boast (rejoice) (have glory) about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you experience.

From Thematic Bible


Distress » Trouble, borrowing » Pain

Job 33:19

On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones.

Isaiah 21:3

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.

Revelation 16:10

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became full of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

More verses: Job 14:22 Job 30:17

Distress » Sorrow » Common to all men

Ecclesiastes 2:23

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.

Job 14:22

He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.

Job 5:7

A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

More verses: Psalm 116:3 Jeremiah 8:15

Soul » Distress

Psalm 42:6

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

Acts 9:9

He went for three days without sight. He did not eat or drink.

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