45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

‘Alas! for that day is great,
There is none like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s distress,
But he will be saved from it.

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

Great wealth is in the house of the righteous,
But trouble is in the income of the wicked.

The Lord said, “Surely I will set you free for purposes of good;
Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you
In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

And He will be the stability of your times,
A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;
The fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Let him drink and forget his poverty
And remember his trouble no more.

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,
And opens their ear in time of oppression.

Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot
Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

“For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

From my distress I called upon the Lord;
The Lord answered me and set me in a large place.

The Lord is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him.

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
He will lift me up on a rock.

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

On the day I called, You answered me;
You made me bold with strength in my soul.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

“Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
Who gives songs in the night,

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

In the day of prosperity be happy,
But in the day of adversity consider—
God has made the one as well as the other
So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.