11 Bible Verses about Severe Afflictions

Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity.

For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me!

He has exhausted me. You have lain 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.read more.
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. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has 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 (strength) in the dust. My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

You let people ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, but then you brought us out and refreshed us.

I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

But you are Jehovah's people! He led you through fiery trials and rescued you from Egypt.

Those who lived in the dark, in death's shadow were prisoners in misery. They were held in iron chains

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.

Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.