45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

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

‘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.