'Afflicted' in the Bible
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
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.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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.
{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
{A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.