'Afflicted' in the Bible
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people.
And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.
He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard.
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according unto thy word.
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.
I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.
All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.
What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Wherefore have we fasted,'say they , and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact all your labors.
and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of Jehovah.
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.