'Afflict' in the Bible

So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,And they shall afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber;So they also will come to destruction.”

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.”

She made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.

I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.’”

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them;

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;Then You planted them;You afflicted the peoples,Then You spread them abroad.

“The enemy will not deceive him,Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

They crush Your people, O Lord,And afflict Your heritage.

And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemiesAnd destroy all those who afflict my soul,For I am Your servant.

Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

For He does not afflict willinglyOr grieve the sons of men.

“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,“And they will afflict you from the entrance of HamathTo the brook of the Arabah.”

Thus says the Lord,“Though they are at full strength and likewise many,Even so, they will be cut off and pass away.Though I have afflicted you,I will afflict you no longer.

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,