'Afflicted' in the Bible

and He saith to Abram, 'knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

And Abram saith unto Sarai, 'Lo, thine handmaid is in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.

And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, 'Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.'

And Elkanah her husband saith to her, 'Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'

And to Abiathar the priest said the king, 'To Anathoth go, unto thy fields; for a man of death thou art, but in this day I do not put thee to death, because thou hast borne the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all that my father was afflicted in.'

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted am I.

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.

I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

O Jehovah, our God, Thou hast afflicted them, A God forgiving Thou hast been to them, And taking vengeance on their actions.

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is feeble, and before Jehovah poureth out his plaint. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, yea, my cry to Thee cometh.

They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

I have believed, for I speak, I -- I have been afflicted greatly.

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.

I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

All the days of the afflicted are evil, And gladness of heart is a perpetual banquet.

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages are afflicted in soul.

Sing, O heavens, and joy, O earth, And break forth, O mountains, with singing, For comforted hath Jehovah His people, And His afflicted ones He doth pity.

Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

O afflicted, storm-tossed, not comforted, Lo, I am laying with cement thy stones, And have founded thee with sapphires,

'Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.

The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.

Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!

From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I do gather the halting one, And the driven away one I bring together, And she whom I have afflicted.

And they have afflicted the land of Asshur with the sword, And the land of Nimrod at its openings, And he hath delivered from Asshur when he doth come into our land, And when he treadeth in our borders.

Thus said Jehovah: Though complete, and thus many, Yet thus they have been cut off, And he hath passed away. And I afflicted thee, I afflict thee no more.

Mine afflicted from the appointed place I have gathered, from thee they have been, Bearing for her sake reproach.

Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.

Because the teraphim did speak iniquity, And the diviners have seen a falsehood, And dreams of the vanity they speak, With vanity they give comfort, Therefore they have journeyed as a flock, They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.

And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it is a word of Jehovah.

and saying, 'Sir, my young man hath been laid in the house a paralytic, fearfully afflicted,'

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;