'Trouble' in the Bible

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I [am] few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"

Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone."

Then each said to his brother, "Surely we [are] guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us."

Then Israel said, "Why did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?"

And the foremen of the {Israelites} saw they were in trouble {with the saying}, "You will not reduce from your bricks {for each day} on its day."

And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me?

And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people."

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?

He has no regard [for] evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God [is] with him, and a shout of a king [is] among them.

As for you, keep [away] from the things devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it.

And Joshua said, "Why did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day." And all Israel stoned them [with] stones; and they burned them with fire [after] they stoned them with stones.

Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."

Jephthah said to the elders, "Did you not shun me and drive me out from the house of my father? Why do you come to me now when you have trouble?"

And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. {I made an oath} to Yahweh, and I cannot take [it] back."

Then Jonathan said, "My father has brought trouble on the land! See now that my eyes have brightened because I have tasted a little of this honey.

Look, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, may my life be great in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me from all trouble."

Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, "{As Yahweh lives}, who redeemed my soul from all trouble,

Then the king swore and said, "{As Yahweh lives}, who has saved my life from all trouble,

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, "Please know and realize that this [man is] seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my women, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not withhold [anything] from him."

He said to him, "Please say to her, 'Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there [for me] to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She said, "I [am] living among my people."

While he [was] still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger [was] coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble [is] from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"

You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?"

but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.

Nation was crushed by nation, and city [was] against city, for God threw them into confusion by all [sorts of] trouble.

'If disaster, a sword, punishment, disease, or famine come upon us, we shall stand before this house and before you--for your name [is] in this house--and cry out to you out of our trouble, then you will hear and save [us].'

Then Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, {instead of helping him},

They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire."

So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.

Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies.

Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and [they are] ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble.

I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."

"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,

which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?

When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble {deliver me}. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.

His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears.

May Yahweh answer you in [the] day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect you.

Do not be far from me because trouble [is] near; because there is no helper.

Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Because he will hide me in his shelter in [the] day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

You [are] my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. [With] cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah

And [the] salvation of [the] righteous [is] from Yahweh, their refuge in [the] time of trouble.

And call me in [the] day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked [with satisfaction] on my enemies.

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying} angels.

In this trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within [the] secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

In the day of my trouble I call to you, because you answer me.

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

He will call upon me and I will answer him; I [will be] with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.

to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?

Do not hide your face from me in [the] day [of] my trouble. Incline your ear to me. In the day I call, answer me quickly,

Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble. He delivered them from their distresses

he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper.

Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses.

Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses.

Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses.

[The] ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief.

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me [with] your right hand.

I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him.

For your name's sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me out of trouble.

The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

The righteous is delivered from trouble, but the wicked enters into it.

He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.

He who brings trouble [to] his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart.

By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

{No evil will happen} to the righteous, but the wicked are filled [with] trouble.

A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful [brings] healing.

A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.

[In] the house of the righteous [there is] much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Better [is] little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it.

He who makes trouble for his house [is] he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live.

All Yahweh has made [is] for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble.

He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

A bad tooth and a lame foot [is] the trust of a faithless person {in a time} of trouble.

For there is a [proper] time and right [procedure] for every matter, even though the trouble of man [weighs] heavy upon him.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"

An oracle of the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, [of] lioness and lion, {among} them [are] snake and flying serpent; they carry their wealth on [the] {backs} of male donkeys and their treasures on [the] humps of camels, to a people [that] cannot profit [them].

Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be our arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in [the] time of trouble.

They carry it on [their] shoulder; they support it and they set it [in] its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even [when] he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.

From the trouble of his life he will see; he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, [the] righteous [one], my servant, shall declare many righteous, and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

[Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'

But where [are] your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For [according to] the number of your towns are your gods, Judah.

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods [to] whom they [are] making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble.