45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

Most Relevant Verses

Isaiah 30:20

Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of oppression, yet your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will [constantly] see your Teacher.

Psalm 77:2


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

Job 30:25


“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?

Jeremiah 11:14

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I shall not listen when they cry to Me in the time of their disaster.

Job 7:1

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

Psalm 71:20


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

Psalm 60:3


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

Job 11:16


“For you would forget your trouble;
You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

Job 36:15


“He rescues the afflicted in their affliction,
And opens their ears [so that they pay attention to His voice] in times of oppression.

Amos 5:13


Therefore, he who is prudent and has insight will keep silent at such a [corrupt and evil] time, for it is an evil time [when people will not listen to truth and will disregard those of good character].

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given you under the sun—all the days of vanity and futility. For this is your reward in life and in your work in which you have labored under the sun.

Jeremiah 15:11


The Lord said, “Surely [it will go well for Judah’s obedient remnant for] I will set you free for good purposes;
Surely [Jeremiah] I will [intercede for you with the enemy and I will] cause the enemy to plead with you [for help]
In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

Proverbs 15:6


Great and priceless treasure is in the house of the [consistently] righteous one [who seeks godly instruction and grows in wisdom],
But trouble is in the income of the wicked one [who rejects the laws of God].

Isaiah 37:3

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

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.

Jeremiah 30:7


‘Alas! for that day is great,
There is none like it;
It is the time of Jacob’s [unequaled] trouble,
But he will be saved from it.

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