45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing of what shall be after him.

But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;

they shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.} God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.

If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.

In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.

Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth;

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

In the day when I called thou answeredst me; thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set me high upon a rock.

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

I called upon Jah in distress; Jah answered me and set me in a large place.

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful man in the day of trouble.

But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression.

let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

and he shall be the stability of thy times, the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah shall be your treasure.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for thy good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In the house of a righteous man is much treasure; but in the revenue of a wicked man is disturbance.

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of reviling; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.

As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be;

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.