'Afflicted' in the Bible
Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram.
And Yahweh said to him again, "Put your hand into the fold of your garment." And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, {to his surprise}, his hand [was] afflicted with a skin disease, like snow.
And Yahweh afflicted the people because they had made the bull calf that Aaron had made.
But if a spot [is] white on his body's skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair does not turn white, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person [for] seven days.
And if the infectious skin disease breaks out all over on the skin and the infectious skin disease covers all of the afflicted person's skin from his head to his feed, {so far as the priest can see},
then the priest shall examine [it], and {if} the infectious skin disease covers his whole body, then he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean--all of it has turned white; he is clean.
and the priest shall examine him, and {if} the infection has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean--he is clean.
But if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin's infection and {if} its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person [with] the diseased area of skin [for] seven days.
he [is] a man afflicted with a skin disease--he [is] unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean--his infection [is] on his head.
"As for the person who is afflicted with a skin disease, his garments must be torn and his {hair} must [be allowed to] hang loosely, and he must cover [his] upper lip, and he must call out, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
"This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease {at the time of} his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest,
and the priest shall go {outside the camp}, and the priest shall examine [him], and {if} the skin disease's infection is healed on the afflicted person,
" '{Anyone} from Aaron's offspring, if he [is] afflicted with a skin disease or a fluid discharge, shall not eat in the sanctuary {until} he is clean; and the one who touches any unclean person or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out,
"Command the {Israelites}: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through [contact with] a corpse.
And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam [was] infected with {a skin disease} white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, [she was] afflicted with a skin disease.
Now Naaman was the commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man before his master and {highly regarded}, for by him Yahweh had given victory to Aram. Now the man was a mighty warrior, [but he was] afflicted with a skin disease.
and you yourself [will be afflicted] with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'"
And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for [which there was] no cure.
"Loyal love [should come] for the afflicted [from] his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
He does not keep [the] wicked alive but grants justice [to the] afflicted.
He delivers [the] afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.
for he [who] {avenges bloodshed} remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of [the] afflicted.
Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget [the] afflicted.
[The] longing of [the] afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}
"Because of [the] oppression of [the] afflicted, because of [the] groaning of [the] poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put [them] in [the] safety [for which] they long."
because he has not despised nor abhorred [the] affliction of [the] afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.
[The] afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your heart live forever.
Turn to me and have mercy on me because I [am] lonely and afflicted.
But [the] afflicted will possess [the] land, and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace.
But as for me, [though] I [am] afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.
[The] afflicted will see [and] rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,
Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.
Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones.
when God rose for justice, to save all [the] afflicted of [the] land. Selah
Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.
I [am] afflicted and perishing from [my] youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, [for as many] years [as] we have seen calamity.
Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted.
Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.
[It is] good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes.
I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments [are] right, and [that] in faithfulness you afflicted me.
I am very much afflicted; O Yahweh, revive me according to your word.
I know that Yahweh will maintain [the] cause of [the] afflicted, [and] justice for [the] needy.
Yahweh helps the afflicted up; [he] brings [the] wicked down to [the] ground.
For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies [the] afflicted with salvation.
Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;
Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the {afflicted}.
Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth [in] rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.
Therefore hear now this afflicted [one] and drunken [one] but not from wine.
However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down [by] God and afflicted.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like lamb to [the] slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.
"O afflicted [one], driven away, [who] is not consoled. Look! I [am] about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.
if you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy [the] appetite of [the] afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness [will be] like noon.
Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,
Yahweh says this: "Even though [they are] powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.
You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like [one who] devours the afflicted in ambush.
Seek Yahweh, all you afflicted of the land who have fulfilled his law; seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the anger of Yahweh.
And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
Because the household gods speak deceit, and those who practice divination see a lie, and the dreamers of vanity speak in vain. Therefore [the people] wander like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd.
And I shepherded the flock [doomed] to slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, one I called Kindness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock.
And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the [ones who were] watching me, knew that it [was] the word of Yahweh.