'Affliction' in the Bible

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.

Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.

And the name of the second he called Ephraim For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread along with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life.

and we cried to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;

And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy handmaid a man child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

It may be that Jehovah will look on mine affliction, and that Jehovah will requite me good for my being cursed this day.

and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

For Jehovah saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and that there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

And behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Jehovah a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight, for it is in abundance; and timber and stone have I prepared; and thou shalt add to it.

and ye shall say, Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.

And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression.

Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Consider mine affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.

This is my comfort in mine affliction; for thy word hath quickened me.

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

RESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

{A Song of degrees.} Jehovah, remember for David all his affliction;

lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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.

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for thy good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.

In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.

Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

and I am wroth exceedingly with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little wroth, and they helped forward the affliction.

And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the billows in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.