'Affliction' in the Bible

The LORD said, "I have certainly seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry caused by their slave masters. I really do understand their pain,

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

The people believed and understood that the LORD had paid attention to the Israelis and had seen their affliction. They bowed their heads and prostrated themselves in worship.

You must not eat any yeast with it. Instead, for seven days eat bread without yeast the bread of affliction because you left the land of Egypt in haste. Remember the day you went out of the land of Egypt for the rest of your lives.

So we cried out to the LORD God of our ancestors, and he heard our cries and observed our affliction, trouble, and oppression.

"You took note of the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and listened to their cry at the Red Sea.

""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!

"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

"If they're bound in chains, caught in ropes of affliction,

Be careful! Don't turn to evil, because of this you will be tried by more than affliction.

Be gracious to me, LORD, take note of my affliction, because of those who hate me. You snatch me away from the gates of death,

Look upon my distress and affliction; forgive all my sins.

I will rejoice and be glad in your gracious love, for you see my affliction and take note that my soul is distressed.

Why are you hiding your face? Why are you ignoring our affliction and oppression?

My eyes languish on account of my affliction; all day long I call out to you, LORD, I spread out my hands to you.

no evil will fall upon you, and no affliction will approach your tent,

Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock.

Had your instruction not been my pleasure, I would have died in my affliction.

Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.

a man to whom God gives wealth, riches, and honor, so that he lacks none of his heart's desires but God does not give him the capability to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger consumes them. This is pointless and a grievous affliction.

And although the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers won't hide themselves anymore, but your own eyes will see your teachers.

Look, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

Judah has gone into exile to escape affliction and servitude. She that sat among the nations, has found no rest. All her pursuers overtook her amid narrow passes.

Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

Uncleanness has soiled her skirts, and she gave no thought to what would follow. She fell in such a startling way, with no one to comfort her. Look, LORD, upon my affliction, because my enemy is boasting.

I am a man familiar with affliction under the rod of God's anger.

Remember my affliction and homelessness wormwood and gall!

"I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me."

He said: "I called out to the LORD from the midst of affliction directed at me, and he answered me. From the depths of death I cried out for help; and you heard my cry.

They will pass through the sea of affliction, and they will strike the waves in that sea. All of the depths of the Nile will evaporate, Assyria's arrogance will be brought down low, and the ruling power of Egypt will disappear.