'Distress' in the Bible
Woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people,
"And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and [its] surging,
[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?
that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.
Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus.
For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.
because of this, brothers, we have been comforted because of you in all our distress and affliction through your faith,