'Misery' in the Bible

Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I [am] unloved. Now my husband will love me."

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."

And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.

And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." '

And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the {Israelites} and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped.

If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and {he could no longer bear} the misery of Israel.

She {made a vow} and said: "O Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant {a male child} then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head."

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).

For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.

Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace."

"You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea.

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; [I am] filled [with] shame, and [just] look [at] my misery!

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

"And now my life is poured out onto me; days of misery have taken hold of me.

My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me.

"And if [they] are tied up with fetters, [if] they are caught in [the] cords of misery,

He delivers [the] afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

But he protects [the] needy from misery, and he makes [their] families like a flock.

This [is] my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life.

Unless your law [had been] my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

See my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.

He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember [any] more.

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst [her] distress.

Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into [the] hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction.

They hear that I was groaning; [there is] no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring [that] day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me.

I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath.

Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!

You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out [your hands] on the day of his disaster.