45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but, in the day of misfortune, consider, - Even the one equally with the other, hath God made, to the end man might find out - after him - nothing.

But, of this, be taking note - that, in last days, there will set in perilous seasons;

They shall not be ashamed in the time of calamity, and, in the days of famine, shall they be filled.

God - for us, is a refuge and strength, A help in distresses, soon found.

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

Though My Lord, should give you bread in short measure and water in scant allowance Yet will thy Teacher not hide himself any more, But thine eyes shall ever be looking on thy Teacher.

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

Who encourageth us in all our tribulation, to the end we may be able to encourage them who are in any tribulation - through means of the encouragement wherewith we, ourselves, are encouraged by God.

And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope,

If, however, thou shouldst even marry, thou hast not sinned; and, if one who is virgin should marry, that one hath not sinned; - but, tribulation of the flesh, shall, such, have: - howbeit, I, spare you.

But none saith - Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

But, I, will sing thy power, And will shout aloud, in the morning, thy lovingkindness, - For thou has become a refuge for me, And a place to flee to in the day of my distress.

In the day of my distress - unto My Lord, will I seek, My hand, by night, hath been outstretched and never once became slack, My soul, hath refused to be consoled;

Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.

At all times, doth a friend love, and, a brother for distress, must be born.

Thou, therefore do not pray for this people, Neither lift thou up for them cry or prayer, - For I am not going to hear in the time that they cry unto me concerning their calamity.

In distress, is any among you? Let him pray; Cheerful, is any? Let him strike the strings;

Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?

Thou who hast let us see many distresses and misfortunes, Wilt gain bring us to life, And, out of the resounding depths of the earth, wilt again raise us up;

How happy is he that is attentive to the poor, In the day of calamity, will Yahweh deliver him:

In the day I cried unto thee, then didst thou answer me, and didst excite me, in my soul, mightily.

Thou hast suffered thy people to see hardship, Thou hast let them drink the wine of confusion.

For he will hide me in his pavilion, in the day of calamity, - He will conceal me, in the secrecy of his tent, Within a rock, will he set me on high.

Wherein ye exult, though, for a little, just now, if needful, put to grief in manifold temptations,

Good is Yahweh, as a protection in the day of distress, - and one who acknowledgeth them who seek refuge in him.

Out of a strait, called I on Yah, He answered me with enlargement.

Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

A broken tooth and a faltering foot, is confidence in the treacherous, in the day of danger.

He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover - in oppression - their ear.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and, his wearying toil, let him remember no more.

So shall a wealth of deliverances, wisdom and knowledge, become the stability of thy times, - the reverence of Yahweh, the game is his treasure.

Therefore, the prudent man, at that time, will be dumb, - Because an evil time, it is!

Enjoy life, with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity, - for, that, is thy portion in life, and in thy toil wherewith, thou, art toiling under the sun.

Said Yahweh, - Verily, I will loose thee, for good! Verily, I will intercede for thee In the time of calamity, and In the time of distress with the enemy!

The household of the righteous man, is a great treasure, but, in the increase of the lawless, is disturbance.

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

and they said unto him, Thus, saith Hezekiah, A day of distress and rebuke and reviling, is this day, - For children are come to the birth, and, strength, is there none to bring forth.

But be calling to mind the former days, in which, once ye were illuminated, a great combat of sufferings, ye endured; -

For, indeed, man could not know his own time, like fishes which were caught in a cruel net, and like little birds which were caught in a trap, - like them, were ensnared the sons of men, by a time of misfortune, when it fell upon them suddenly.

These things, have I spoken unto you, that, in me, ye may have, peace: In the world, ye have, tribulation; but be taking courage, - I, have overcome the world.

In hope, rejoicing, in tribulation, enduring, in prayer, persevering,

For there will be then, Great tribulation, such as hath not happened, from the beginning of the world, until the present time, neither in any wise shall happen.

Alas! for, great, is that day, so that none is like it, - Yea, a time of anguish it is for Jacob, But out of it, shall he be saved.