45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

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

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

If thou faint in the day of adversity, 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 is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD 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.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

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

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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

Live joyfully 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 this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

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

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

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

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

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, 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.