'Affliction' in the Bible

The angel of the Lord said to her further,“Behold, you are with child,And you will bear a son;And you shall call his name Ishmael,Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.

Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”

He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

She made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head.”

Perhaps the Lord will look on my affliction and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel.

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house,

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,And heard their cry by the Red Sea.

“For affliction does not come from the dust,Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

“And now my soul is poured out within me;Days of affliction have seized me.

“I am seething within and cannot relax;Days of affliction confront me.

“And if they are bound in fetters,And are caught in the cords of affliction,

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

“Be careful, do not turn to evil,For you have preferred this to affliction.

Be gracious to me, O Lord;See my affliction from those who hate me,You who lift me up from the gates of death,

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.

Look upon my affliction and my trouble,And forgive all my sins.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,Because You have seen my affliction;You have known the troubles of my soul,

Why do You hide Your faceAnd forget our affliction and our oppression?

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;I have called upon You every day, O Lord;I have spread out my hands to You.

But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,And makes his families like a flock.

This is my comfort in my affliction,That Your word has revived me.

If Your law had not been my delight,Then I would have perished in my affliction.

Resh.Look upon my affliction and rescue me,For I do not forget Your law.

A Song of Ascents.Remember, O Lord, on David’s behalf,All his affliction;

a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

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.

Judah has gone into exile under afflictionAnd under harsh servitude;She dwells among the nations,But she has found no rest;All her pursuers have overtaken herIn the midst of distress.

In the days of her affliction and homelessnessJerusalem remembers all her precious thingsThat were from the days of old,When her people fell into the hand of the adversaryAnd no one helped her.The adversaries saw her,They mocked at her ruin.

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;She did not consider her future.Therefore she has fallen astonishingly;She has no comforter.“See, O Lord, my affliction,For the enemy has magnified himself!”

I am the man who has seen afflictionBecause of the rod of His wrath.

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

I will go away and return to My placeUntil they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.