45 Bible Verses about Getting Through Hard Times

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

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

They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in [the] days of famine they will be satisfied.

God [is] our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

And the Lord will give you [the] bread [of] distress and [the] water [of] oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes {shall see} your teachers.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Have I not wept for {the unfortunate}, [and] grieved myself over the poor?

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I [will] not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble.

Is anyone among you suffering misfortune? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praise.

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

{When} I called and you answered me, you emboldened me in my soul [with] strength.

You have shown your people hard [things]; You have given us wine that staggers.

Because he will hide me in his shelter in [the] day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

Yahweh is good--a refuge in [the] day of distress; [he knows] those who take refuge in him.

Out of [my] distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, [setting me] in a broad place.

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

A bad tooth and a lame foot [is] the trust of a faithless person {in a time} of trouble.

He delivers [the] afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.

He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember [any] more.

and he will be the security of your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh [is] his treasure.

Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it [is] a time of evil.

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this [is] your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.

Yahweh said, "{Surely} I will set you free {to be good} for you, {surely} I will cause the enemy to intercede with you in a time of trouble, and in a time of distress.

[In] the house of the righteous [there is] much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day [is] a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to [the] cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.

But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,

For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen.

Alas! For that day [is] great, {there is none like it}. And it [is] a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered.