'Suffer' in the Bible
And Israel (Jacob) said, “Why did you treat me so badly by telling the man that you had another brother?”
Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin].
“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.
For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
The young lions lack [food] and grow hungry,But they who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.
The Lord will not leave him in his handOr let him be condemned when he is judged.
You have made Your people experience hardship;You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.
For there are no pains in their death,Their body is fat and pampered.
I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep [unmindful of lost opportunity],And the idle person will suffer hunger.
A man of great anger will bear the penalty [for his quick temper and lack of self-control];For if you rescue him [and do not let him learn from the consequences of his action], you will only have to rescue him over and over again.
It has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge; yet it has more rest and is better off than he.
Therefore the Lord will afflict the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion with scabs [making them bald],And the Lord will expose their foreheads (send them into captivity).”
Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned [under the curse of God’s wrath], and few people are left.
O Lord, You know and understand;Remember me [thoughtfully], take notice of me,take vengeance for me on my persecutors.Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away;Know that for Your sake I endure [continual] rebuke and dishonor.
Thus your lewdness will be repaid to you, and you will suffer the penalty for your [sinful] idolatry; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord God.’”
Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘I have lifted up My hand and sworn [an oath] that the nations that are around you will themselves endure their [shameful] insults.
I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble [through idolatry] any longer,” says the Lord God.’”
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Their heart is divided (faithless);Now they must bear their guilt and punishment.The Lord will break down [the horns of] their altars;He will destroy their idolatrous pillars.
How the animals groan!The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlesslyBecause they have no pasture;Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Whatever [plot] you [Assyrians] devise against the Lord,He will make a complete end of it;Affliction [of God’s people by the hand of Assyria] will not occur twice.
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- Abide (182 instances)
- Ache (1 instance)
- Bear (470 instances)
- Brook (79 instances)
- Digest (1 instance)
- Endure (180 instances)
- Hurt (115 instances)
- Lose (96 instances)
- Meet (328 instances)
- Stand (668 instances)
- Stomach (57 instances)
- Suffer (240 instances)
- Support (201 instances)
- Sustain (46 instances)
- Tolerate (15 instances)
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