'Affliction' in the Bible

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

She vowed a vow, and said, "Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."

You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

Say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."'"

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace."'"

If evil comes on us -- the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine -- we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'

They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."

"You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

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.

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you 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.

Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.

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

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.

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

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.