'Afflicted' in the Bible

For He who requires blood remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;He lurks to catch the afflicted;He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Your hand.Do not forget the afflicted.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,But the Lord is his refuge.

For You save an afflicted people,But haughty eyes You abase.

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;Nor has He hidden His face from him;But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.Let your heart live forever!

Turn to me and be gracious to me,For I am lonely and afflicted.

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bowTo cast down the afflicted and the needy,To slay those who are upright in conduct.

Since I am afflicted and needy,Let the Lord be mindful of me.You are my help and my deliverer;Do not delay, O my God.

But I am afflicted and in pain;May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

But I am afflicted and needy;Hasten to me, O God!You are my help and my deliverer;O Lord, do not delay.

May he judge Your people with righteousnessAnd Your afflicted with justice.

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people,Save the children of the needyAnd crush the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

A Prayer of David.Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;For I am afflicted and needy.

Your wrath has rested upon me,And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,And the years we have seen evil.

A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.Hear my prayer, O Lord!And let my cry for help come to You.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,He himself was laid in irons;

Fools, because of their rebellious way,And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

For I am afflicted and needy,And my heart is wounded within me.

I believed when I said,“I am greatly afflicted.”

Before I was afflicted I went astray,But now I keep Your word.

It is good for me that I was afflicted,That I may learn Your statutes.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

I am exceedingly afflicted;Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflictedAnd justice for the poor.

The Lord supports the afflicted;He brings down the wicked to the ground.

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.