11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

“For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me.
All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.
“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.
“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.
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“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.
“God hands me over to ruffians
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.
“His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.
“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.
“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
And thrust my horn in the dust.
“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

You made men ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
Their poison my spirit drinks;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.