'Afflicted' in the Bible
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."
Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
"You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
"In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.