'Misery' in the Bible

Then you will eat the offspring of your own body [to avoid starvation], the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you.

So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,And life to the bitter in soul,

So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.

“For you would forget your trouble;You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].

Let him drink and forget his povertyAnd no longer remember his trouble.

For there is a proper time and [appropriate] procedure for every delight,Though mankind’s misery and trouble lies heavily upon him [who rebels against the king].

Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

Also, O Judah, there is a harvest [of divine judgment] appointed for you,When I restore the fortunes of My people [who have been slaves to the misery of sin].

“These who pant after (long to see) the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless [as sign of their grief and distress]Also turn aside the way of the humble;And a man and his father will go to the same girlSo that My holy name is profaned.

“Do not enter the gate of My peopleIn the day of their disaster;Yes, you, do not look [with delight] on their miseryIn the day of their ruin,And do not loot treasuresIn the day of their ruin.