'Afflictions' in the Bible

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants -- great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

The generation to come -- your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places -- will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering.

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.