11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.

And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly. Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face. He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.read more.
They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me. God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark: His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth. He will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one. I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust. My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death

Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

Thou didst cause men to ride upon our head; we went through fire and through water: and thou wilt bring us forth to abundance.

And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

They sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound with affliction and iron.

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.

O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger.