12 Bible Verses about God Appointed Afflictions

[so that] no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For [you] yourselves know that we are appointed for this,

While he [was] still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger [was] coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble [is] from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"

Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

You brought us into the net; you placed a {heavy burden} on our backs.

Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done [it]?

The voice of Yahweh calls to the city ([it is] sound judgment to fear your name): "Hear, staff! Now who has appointed it?

And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, [so] Yahweh your God [is] disciplining you.

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

"I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized [me] by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.

"Son of man, look! I [am] taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down.

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.