12 Bible Verses about God Appointed Afflictions

that no man should be moved in these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are even appointed thereunto.

And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"

"It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground;

"Behold, happy is the man whom God punisheth: therefore, despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Thou hast brought us into captivity, and laid trouble upon our loins.

Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing?

The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man that shall be saved considereth thy name, O LORD. Hear and that thy name may be righteousness. Hear, O ye tribes: who would else give you such warning?

Understand, therefore, in thine heart, that as a man nurtureth his son, even so the LORD thy God nurtureth thee.

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.

"Thou son of man, behold, I take away the pleasure of thine eyes with a plague: yet shalt thou neither mourn, nor weep, nor water thy cheeks therefore.

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.