'Afflicted' in the Bible

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

“Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,

When the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.

I went out full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

“And You save an afflicted people;But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase.

Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for many disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

So Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,They have cast off the bridle before me.

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted—

“He does not keep the wicked alive,But gives justice to the afflicted.

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,And opens their ear in time of oppression.

For He who requires blood remembers them;He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;He lurks to catch the afflicted;He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Your hand.Do not forget the afflicted.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,But the Lord is his refuge.

For You save an afflicted people,But haughty eyes You abase.

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;Nor has He hidden His face from him;But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.Let your heart live forever!

Turn to me and be gracious to me,For I am lonely and afflicted.

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bowTo cast down the afflicted and the needy,To slay those who are upright in conduct.

Since I am afflicted and needy,Let the Lord be mindful of me.You are my help and my deliverer;Do not delay, O my God.

But I am afflicted and in pain;May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

But I am afflicted and needy;Hasten to me, O God!You are my help and my deliverer;O Lord, do not delay.

May he judge Your people with righteousnessAnd Your afflicted with justice.

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people,Save the children of the needyAnd crush the oppressor.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

A Prayer of David.Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;For I am afflicted and needy.

Your wrath has rested upon me,And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,And the years we have seen evil.

A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.Hear my prayer, O Lord!And let my cry for help come to You.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,He himself was laid in irons;

Fools, because of their rebellious way,And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

For I am afflicted and needy,And my heart is wounded within me.

I believed when I said,“I am greatly afflicted.”

Before I was afflicted I went astray,But now I keep Your word.

It is good for me that I was afflicted,That I may learn Your statutes.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

I am exceedingly afflicted;Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflictedAnd justice for the poor.

The Lord supports the afflicted;He brings down the wicked to the ground.

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

Though He scoffs at the scoffers,Yet He gives grace to the afflicted.

All the days of the afflicted are bad,But a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor,Or crush the afflicted at the gate;

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swordsAnd his jaw teeth like knives,To devour the afflicted from the earthAnd the needy from among men.

For they will drink and forget what is decreed,And pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Open your mouth, judge righteously,And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

“How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?That the Lord has founded Zion,And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”

O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor!What I have heard from the Lord of hosts,The God of Israel, I make known to you.

“The foot will trample it,The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless.”

The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the Lord,And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;He devises wicked schemesTo destroy the afflicted with slander,Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,And their tongue is parched with thirst;I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!For the Lord has comforted His peopleAnd will have compassion on His afflicted.

Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted,Who are drunk, but not with wine:

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,And our sorrows He carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He did not open His mouth;Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,So He did not open His mouth.

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

And if you give yourself to the hungryAnd satisfy the desire of the afflicted,Then your light will rise in darknessAnd your gloom will become like midday.

“The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;And they will call you the city of the Lord,The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,Because the Lord has anointed meTo bring good news to the afflicted;He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty to captivesAnd freedom to prisoners;

In all their affliction He was afflicted,And the angel of His presence saved them;In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;Then it was well.Is not that what it means to know Me?”Declares the Lord.

The roads of Zion are in mourningBecause no one comes to the appointed feasts.All her gates are desolate;Her priests are groaning,Her virgins are afflicted,And she herself is bitter.

“In that day,” declares the Lord,“I will assemble the lameAnd gather the outcasts,Even those whom I have afflicted.

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 the teraphim speak iniquity,And the diviners see lying visionsAnd tell false dreams;They comfort in vain.Therefore the people wander like sheep,They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.