'Hardship' in the Bible
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”
Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had befallen them on the journey, and how the Lord had delivered them.
Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, His anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
From Kadesh Moses then sent messengers to the king of Edom: “Thus your brother Israel has said, ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us;
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
Do not regard it as a hardship when you set him free, because he worked for you six years—worth twice the wages of a hired hand. Then the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
So we called out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.
“You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
To Abiathar the priest, the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your field, for {you deserve to die}, but on this day I will not kill you, for you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you endured hardship in all the hardship that my father endured."
“Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people,From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.
‘You renew Your witnesses against meAnd increase Your anger toward me;Hardship after hardship is with me.
You have made Your people suffer hardship;You have given us wine to drinkthat made us stagger.
Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.
He has laid siege against me,encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
That day will be a day of God's anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
saying, 'These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.'
"Men, I see that during this voyage there will be hardship and a heavy loss not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives."
After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood among his shipmates and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would have avoided this hardship and damage.
And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance;
But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:by great endurance, by afflictions,by hardship, by difficulties,
It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality—
labor and hardship,many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.
Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.
For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.