11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

that in much testing of trouble, the overflowing of their joy, and the depth of their poverty, abounded to the riches of their generosity.

For You cast me into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate. And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face. His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;read more.
They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me. God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark. His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground. He breaks me with break on break; He runs on me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth on my skin and thrust my horn in the dust. My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.

You have allowed men to ride at our head; we have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty.

And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

But Jehovah has taken you and brought you out from the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as you are today.

Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.