10 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality;

For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.

But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family; And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth. His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.read more.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks. GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong. At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark: His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall: He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man. Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled - in the dust - my horn: My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade: -

Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

Thou didst let men ride at our head; We went into fire and into water, But thou didst bring us forth into freedom.

And I at once said to him - My lord! thou, knowest! And he said unto me - These, are they who come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb;

whereas you, hath Yahweh taken, and brought you forth out of a smelting-pot of iron, out of Egypt, - that ye might become his own inherited people as at this day.

The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;

Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.